Chris Swart
Data Research Engineer
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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Top SchoolChris Swart is a Data Research Engineer with 11 years of experience applying machine learning and NLP to real-world problems, from biomedical literature at Healx to sales conversation analytics at Comtura. Based in Barcelona, he blends research-minded experimentation with productionisation—shipping ETL pipelines, ANN-backed entity linking, and topic-modeling systems that measurably improved performance and business outcomes. A confident public speaker and educator, he’s presented on LMQL, RAG, and distant supervision at PyData, Beam Summit, and DataTalks.club, translating complex ideas for diverse audiences. He has co-founded and led ML teams, driven product integrations like HubSpot, and delivered transfer-learning and coreference-driven gains in deployed systems. Comfortable across research, engineering, and go-to-market activities, he frames work around business impact—business impact + tech = happiness. He’s a global citizen who leverages multilingual and cultural curiosity to scout opportunities beyond borders.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Artifical Intelligence and Computer Science (Bsc Hons), Bachelor’s Degree, Artifical Intelligence and Computer Science (Bsc Hons) at The University of EdinburghSecondary school diploma (Matura exam/Erettsegi), Advanced Mathematics, Advanced History, Advanced English, Geography,Hungarian Grammar and Literature, Secondary school diploma (Matura exam/Erettsegi), Advanced Mathematics, Advanced History, Advanced English, Geography,Hungarian Grammar and Literature at ELTE Apaczai Csere Janos Gyakorlogimnazium es Kollegium
German, French
Stackoverflow
680reputation
57kreached
13answers
29questions
Github Skills (149)
gatsbyjs10
dependency-parsing10
binder10
nlp9
coreference9
annotations9
trainer9
datasets9
coreference-resolution9
named-entity-recognition9
jupyter9
computer-vision8
labeling8
gatsby8
python8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
swartchris8/swartchris8.github.io
May 2017 - Apr 2020
Contributions:12 pushes in 2 years 10 months
jekyll-blogjekylljekyll-thememinutes
swartchris8/nlp-intro
Oct 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:16 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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