Colm Coughlan
Director Of Data Science
Cork, Ireland
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Top SchoolColm Coughlan is a Director of Data Science with 11 years’ experience leading teams that design and deploy real‑time AI to detect and prevent payment fraud across cloud-native platforms. He blends hands‑on expertise in machine learning, streaming data pipelines and behavioural biometrics with a strong engineering pedigree from roles as software architect and tech lead. Earlier work in banking produced award‑winning metadata‑driven Spark ETL solutions, and his PhD and postdoc in astrophysics underpin a deep background in high‑performance scientific computing and large‑scale data reduction. Colm is known for driving end‑to‑end ownership—from research through production—and for applying techniques from radio astronomy and GPU computing to novel fraud‑detection problems. Based in Cork, Ireland, he thrives on challenging, real‑world engineering problems that materially improve customer security.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Physics at University College CorkLeaving Certificate, Leaving Certificate at Hamilton High School, Bandon
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Github Skills (6)
reform3
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calibration2
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python2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
colmcoughlan/colmcoughlan.github.io
Feb 2016 - Jan 2025
Contributions:10 PRs, 68 pushes, 2 branches in 9 years
colmcoughlan/quickfits
Jan 2015 - Dec 2016
Contributions:2 releases, 19 pushes, 2 tags in 1 year 11 months
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