Andrew Blance
Senior Data Scientist
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Blance is a Senior Data Scientist with eight years of experience applying AI and data engineering to real-world problems across industry and public sector clients. He holds a PhD in Data Intensive Science from Durham and has a track record of turning research-grade methods into production ML systems on Azure and Databricks. At Waterstons he led innovation and AI consulting—shaping technical strategy, running board-level workshops, and launching award-winning pilots—before moving to the BBC to scale data-driven solutions. As a founder of Pasimo he built an AI-powered sign language learning product, securing pilots with major retailers and partnerships with national sign language groups, showing both commercial and social impact. He blends hands-on MLOps, object-detection and anomaly-detection expertise with client-facing strategy and team leadership. Colleagues value him for translating complex technical ideas into accessible, actionable plans that drive adoption.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Physics, BSc Physics at University of AberdeenDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Data Intensive Science in High Energy Physics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Data Intensive Science in High Energy Physics at Durham UniversityMSc Theoretical Physics, MSc Theoretical Physics at University of Glasgow
Github Skills (39)
wordle-game8
minesweeper7
linter7
community-detection7
python7
graph-embedding6
unsupervised-learning6
mlops-workflow6
mlops-project6
factorization5
supervised-learning5
azerothcore5
sklearn5
azure-machine-learning5
networkx5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
andrewblance/shetland-wordle
Feb 2022 - Jun 2022
Wirdle, a shaetlan version of the popular game Wordle
Contributions:2 reviews, 34 commits, 2 PRs in 3 months
crosswordgameminesweepertrinitycoreazerothcore
andrewblance/advent_of_code_2020
Dec 2020 - Dec 2020
Advent of Code 2020
Contributions:20 PRs, 40 pushes, 2 branches in 7 days
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