Colin Mclellan
Senior AI Engineer at GitLab
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.
11 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 (15)
ccpa10
aws9
gdpr9
amazon-s39
privacy9
data-lake9
lucene8
parquet8
big-data7
information-retrieval7
translation2
windows1
large-language-models1
llm1
genai1
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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