Chris Watkins
Head Of Org AI Innovation
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolChris Watkins is a tech leader with a decade of experience building and scaling data-driven teams and 0-to-1 AI products, now heading Org AI Innovation at Google DeepMind in London. He founded and grew DeepMind’s Core Analytics group to ~15 engineers, data scientists and analysts, turning analytics into a strategic lever for decision-making across the org. Chris combines hands-on prototyping of AI-driven horizontal tools with deep vertical partnerships to embed AI into everyday workflows, focusing on productivity and operational impact. His background in strategy and operations in DeepMind’s Office of the CEO and prior consulting at Bain gives him a rare fluency in both high-level strategy and execution. Trained in social anthropology at Cambridge, he brings a human-centered lens to designing AI that amplifies organisational capability, not just technology. Colleagues describe him as ambitious and creatively pragmatic—building prototypes that quickly become mission-critical.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Bellarmine College PreparatoryBachelor of Arts (B.A.) Social Anthropology, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Social Anthropology at University of Cambridge
Spanish, Chinese, English, Greek
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (6)
macos6
excel6
vba6
dqn2
deep-learning2
pytorch2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
clwatkins/personal-crm
Apr 2021 - Mar 2022
Contributions:59 commits, 40 pushes, 4 branches in 11 months
clwatkins/pytorch-dqn
May 2020 - Nov 2021
(D)DQN implementation in PyTorch
Contributions:3 PRs, 4 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 6 months
deep-learningpytorchdqn
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