Bill Gilpin
Engineering Director, ML And Data
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolBill Gilpin is an engineering director and product strategist with over two decades of AI/ML leadership experience, currently running ML and Data at BenchSci where he focuses on NLP, RAG, LLMs and document processing. He combines deep technical fluency—Cambridge computer science and an MSc in Data Science—with hands-on product and engineering leadership across startups and enterprise teams, having built product teams from scratch and overseen engineering at scale. His career spans roles from CPO at Adarga (knowledge graphs, high-throughput LLM pipelines for defence and intelligence) to product and analytics leadership at Quantexa and Stepstone, delivering practical ML solutions in fraud, biotech, search and recommender systems. A former RAF fighter pilot, he brings disciplined strategic thinking and rapid decision-making to complex, high-stakes problems. He’s equally at home defining product vision and diving into model evaluations and retrieval systems, turning messy document and graph data into actionable insights. Based in Bath, England, he blends operational rigor with a track record of shipping impactful AI products across regulated and commercial domains.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Psychology, BSc Psychology at The Open UniversityMSc Data Science, MSc Data Science at Birkbeck, University of LondonMillfieldBA MA Computer Science, BA MA Computer Science at University of CambridgeRAF College Cranwell
Github Skills (43)
jupyter-notebook9
notebook8
jupyter8
jupyterlab7
angularjs7
eve7
bind7
two-way7
eve-online6
editors6
javascript6
text-editing5
esi5
ckeditor5
dataflow-programming5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
wgilpin/recruitment-ascee
Dec 2018 - Mar 2021
Contributions:23 PRs, 159 pushes, 20 branches in 2 years 2 months
wgilpin/recruitment
Sep 2018 - Apr 2025
React / PHP site for recruitment of new members in the game Eve Online
Contributions:2 PRs, 7 pushes, 3 branches in 6 years 7 months
react-phpreactevephprecruitment
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