Christopher Fleetwood
Machine Learning Engineer at Hugging Face
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolChristopher Fleetwood is a software engineer with seven years' experience building reliable backend systems, currently working across ML infra at Hugging Face and Cohere out of London. He brings practical Rust expertise from a tenure at TrueLayer and contributions to async-stripe—improving error handling and adding billing portal and checkout session features—demonstrating attention to API robustness and payments integrations. Earlier roles at J.P. Morgan honed his production engineering skills for finance and research distribution, while his research at the University of East Anglia produced published ML work on anticholinergic burden and multimodal cognitive impairment diagnosis. He combines strong academic grounding (First Class BSc in Computer Science) with hands-on open-source impact and a pragmatic, reality-tested engineering mindset. Colleagues can expect a developer who balances careful systems thinking with shipping improvements that make APIs safer and easier to use.
7 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science BSc, Computer Science, First Class (79%) - 4.25 GPA, Computer Science BSc, Computer Science, First Class (79%) - 4.25 GPA at University of East Anglia
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Github Skills (15)
error-handling10
rust10
api10
apidoc10
stripe-api10
asynchronous8
webhooks8
testing8
async8
declaration6
cursor-position6
datagridview6
assign6
combobox6
stackoverflow6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
arlyon/async-stripe
Dec 2021 - Jul 2022
Async (and blocking!) Rust bindings for the Stripe API
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 15 commits, 7 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Christopher contributed significantly to the `async-stripe` repository, focusing on enhancing error reporting and adding new features related to billing portal sessions. Their work included modifying core files such as `src/error.rs` and `src/resources/charge_ext.rs`, indicating a focus on improving the API's robustness and functionality. Furthermore, they added support for billing portal configurations and sessions, demonstrating a focus on expanding the library's capabilities to cover new Stripe features. The user also implemented a retrieval method for checkout sessions and added an example webhook handler demonstrating usage of the library.
apistriperustrust-bindingsblocking
FL33TW00D/wgpu-mm
Mar 2023 - Sep 2024
Contributions:37 PRs, 120 pushes, 17 branches in 1 year 6 months
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