Chris Loy
CTO & Co-Founder at [building]
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolChris Loy is a CTO and co-founder with 12 years of engineering and leadership experience building production AI and distributed systems across startups and large media firms. He led Datasine from product concept to acquisition and later headed Shutterstock’s Generative AI org, shipping one of the earliest compensated-image generators and owning foundation models, MLOps, and billion-asset semantic search. Hands-on as a fractional CTO, he builds MVPs and multi-agent systems across health, climate, and education while writing about AI-driven engineering to a 10k+ monthly audience. Trained as a physicist with an MSc in Machine Learning, he combines low-latency, high-throughput systems experience from Ocado and the BBC with product-first ML that replaces A/B testing and boosts ROI. Based in London, he’s as comfortable patenting agentic image generation and demoing bleeding-edge prototypes to partners as he is architecting scalable, safety-minded AI infrastructure.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
MPhys (Hons), Physics, MPhys (Hons), Physics at University of OxfordUniversity College London
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (31)
sax-parser9
python9
machine-learning9
xml8
deep-learning8
tensorflow8
scala-xml8
data-science7
neural-network7
filter6
sorting6
haskell6
lambda6
functional-programming6
parsing6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
chrisloy/chrisloy.net
Mar 2015 - Apr 2020
Contributions:2 PRs, 11 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 1 month
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chrisloy/simple-json
Apr 2014 - May 2014
Contributions:18 commits in 1 month
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