Barry Smart
Director Of Data And AI
Falkirk, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolBarry Smart is a Director of Data and AI with three decades of technology leadership spanning software engineering, enterprise architecture and executive IT roles across energy, finance and consulting. He currently leads data and AI initiatives at endjin, bringing practical experience from CTO and IT Director roles where he drove cloud adoption, API strategies and award-winning digital transformations. Barry blends hands-on data science (including work with open banking and ML for transaction classification) with a deep systems view developed delivering 24/7 utility and energy trading platforms. A creative visual thinker and stakeholder facilitator, he excels at unpacking complex problems into pragmatic, high-impact roadmaps. Notably, his early adoption of service-bus architectures enabled real-time optimisation and straight-through processing in mission-critical energy systems—a pattern he still applies to modern microservices and AI solutions. Based in Falkirk, Scotland, he pairs an MSc in AI with a track record of turning cutting-edge technology into measurable benefits for users and industries.
11 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Artificial Intelligence, Master of Science - MS Artificial Intelligence at The Data Lab AcademyMaster of Science - MSc Artificial Intelligence and Applications, Master of Science - MSc Artificial Intelligence and Applications at University of StrathclydeWoodlands High School, Falkirk
Github Skills (32)
testing9
data-validation9
hypothesis-testing9
pandas-dataframe9
validation9
schema9
data-cleaning9
stability8
expressive8
data-processing8
dataframes8
test-data8
coercion8
data-quality7
schema-validation7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Smartitect/dataprep
Dec 2018 - Feb 2019
Sandpit for exploring Microsoft's data preparation SDK.
Contributions:51 commits, 1 PR, 76 pushes in 1 month
preparationsdkdata-preparationsandpitmicrosoft
microsoft/azure-api-management-monetization
Jun 2021 - Feb 2022
Contributions:39 commits, 3 PRs, 10 pushes in 7 months
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