Ben Clark
Lead Architect at BBC
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Clark is a Lead Architect and ML-savvy engineering leader in London with 10+ years building large-scale production systems and industrial recommender platforms at the BBC. He combines a research-first background (PhD in Biology) with deep hands-on experience in recommender systems, MLOps, audio/video ML pipelines and information retrieval, moving models from offline evaluation into production. At the BBC he has led multidisciplinary teams to deliver personalised recommendations, recommender evaluation frameworks, and tooling for model deployment and metadata extraction. Colleagues value his clear stakeholder communication and ability to translate experimental research into measurable product improvements. An experienced developer dating back to academic bioinformatics projects, he brings both scientific rigor and pragmatic engineering to complex data problems.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Biology, Ph.D., Biology at Imperial College LondonB.Sc., Biology, 2:1, B.Sc., Biology, 2:1 at University of SouthamptonM.Res., Bioinformatics, Pass with Distinction, M.Res., Bioinformatics, Pass with Distinction at University of Leeds
Github Skills (6)
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Github contributions (5)
bbc/vatic
Dec 2016 - Jun 2017
Contributions:16 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
marketplacesvideo-annotationcomputer-visionvideocrowdsourced
bbc/gadabout
Nov 2016 - Aug 2017
Contributions:6 pushes, 5 branches in 8 months
nomad-jobhashicorp-nomadarmynomadscheduler
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