Alex Drake
AI Operations Manager
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAlex Drake is a Lead Data Scientist with over a decade of experience applying statistical modelling, anomaly detection and computer vision to urban transport challenges at Transport for London. Trained as a physicist at UCL, he blends rigorous quantitative thinking with practical engineering in R, Python, SQL and front-end visualization (d3.js) to turn complex sensor and operational data into actionable insight. He has progressed through analytic and data science roles at TfL, owning end-to-end predictive model delivery and productionised OpenCV object detection solutions that improve service reliability. Comfortable bridging research and deployment, Alex pairs experiment-led feature engineering with scalable pipelines and clear visual storytelling for stakeholders across Greater London. Outside the obvious stack, he brings RF/microwave design experience from MBDA, giving him a rare hardware-aware perspective on signal-rich transport data.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Physics Mathematics, Physics Mathematics at Nelson and Colne CollegeErmysted's Grammar SchoolUniversity College London
German, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (10)
opencv7
python6
data-science5
javascript4
r4
mozilla4
rstudio2
gis1
transport1
data-analysis1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
alex-drake/tflplot
Feb 2019 - Jul 2019
Contributions:26 commits, 22 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
tfl-pyr/HTML5-Games-Workshop
Apr 2017 - Aug 2023
Attempt to build a HTML5 game following Belén Albeza tutorial https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/04/html5-games-workshop-make-a-platformer-game-with-javascript/
Contributions:18 PRs, 36 pushes, 4 branches in 6 years 5 months
html5-gamegamegamesgames-workshopfollowing
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