Charles Copley
VP Product Engineering at Ancera
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolCharles Copley is a VP Product Engineering and cross-functional tech leader with 13 years of experience building and scaling teams across data science, machine learning, software engineering, and product in FinTech, HealthTech, and SaaS. He combines a rigorous research background—a D.Phil in Astrophysics and publications in NeurIPS, ACL, and BMJ Global Health—with hands-on product delivery, specializing in org design and roadmap execution that align technical vision to commercial outcomes. His career spans leadership roles from data science manager at Cedar to head of data science and now VP at Ancera, showing a consistent track record of maturing analytics into production systems. Known for a people-first leadership style, he pairs disciplined process with curiosity-driven innovation, often translating complex research into pragmatic product features. A less obvious strength is his deep systems and engineering roots from early project engineering and large-scale scientific projects, which inform his ability to manage high-velocity, technically complex teams.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc Hons Astrophysics and Space Science, B.Sc Hons Astrophysics and Space Science at University of Cape TownD.Phil (Ph.D) Astrophysics, D.Phil (Ph.D) Astrophysics at University of OxfordMatric (IEB), Matric (IEB) at MichaelhouseCalifornia Institute of TechnologyM.Sc Physics with Electronics, M.Sc Physics with Electronics at Rhodes University
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Github Skills (38)
bayesian10
probabilistic10
bayesian-inference10
probabilistic-programming9
variational-inference9
twitter9
bayesian-statistics9
python9
statistical-inference9
probabilistic-models9
mcmc9
modeling9
jupyter-notebook8
multi-user8
messaging7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
chopley/spark_social_network_analysis
Oct 2016 - Nov 2017
Example of spark social network analysis using Spark
Contributions:2 commits, 24 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
social-networksocial-network-analysispythonspark-mlspark
chopley/servoCode
May 2013 - Mar 2017
Contributions:9 commits, 17 pushes in 3 years 11 months
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