Colin Mclellan
Senior SA Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolColin Mclellan is a Senior Solutions Architect Engineer at AWS with a decade of experience translating research-grade data science and retrieval expertise into production-ready cloud solutions. He combines a PhD in Computing Science—where he studied algorithmic bias and retrievability—with hands-on roles in data engineering, DevOps, and customer-facing PoCs and demos. Based in Glasgow, he helps global customers accelerate their cloud journeys through hackathons, gamedays and immersive workshops, pairing deep technical nuance with practical delivery. His background means he not only builds pipelines and infrastructure but also understands model behaviour and fairness trade-offs that can impact real systems. Colleagues rely on him to bridge academic insight and operational rigor, turning complex problems into demonstrable, repeatable solutions.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computing Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computing Science at University of Glasgow
Github Skills (25)
ccpa10
pii9
solr9
sensitive-data9
aws9
amazon-s39
amazon9
gdpr9
aws-glue9
data-lake8
lucene8
parquet8
privacy8
sst8
retrieval8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
kojayboy/retrievability_tools
Oct 2015 - Feb 2017
Contributions:9 commits, 5 pushes in 1 year 4 months
kojayboy/lucene4ir
Dec 2016 - Jun 2018
Contributions:15 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
retrievalluceneinformation-retrieval
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