Summary
Andrew Verden is a Senior Data Consultant and software engineer with over a decade of experience combining hands-on development, research leadership, and commercial management across data science, AI, analytics, and mathematical optimisation. He has led projects in logistics, transportation, telecommunications and healthcare, and has held roles from CEO of a software firm to principal research engineer at NICTA and senior research developer in medical settings. Comfortable bridging academic rigor (PhD, Data Science specialization at Johns Hopkins) and product delivery, he translates complex optimisation and ML research into practical solutions for industry. Based in the Greater Sydney Area, he runs a long-standing freelance practice while continuing technical leadership at MasterPiece Systems, reflecting both entrepreneurial drive and sustained delivery. Not obviously visible from headlines, he blends decades of executive experience with late-night coding pragmatism—“software engineer by day, coding monkey by night”—making him equally at home mentoring teams or shipping production code.
10 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, PhD at University of Southampton
Data Science Specialisation, Data Science Specialisation at John Hopkins University
BSc, BSc at University of Exeter
English, German