Daniel Staff
Senior Data Scientist
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel Staff is a Senior Data Scientist in London with a decade of experience building production-ready solutions across computer vision, NLP and knowledge graphs. He has progressed from academic modelling of physical systems during a PhD to delivering ML products at startups and scaleups, currently shaping intelligence at Signal AI. His career blends hands-on engineering—SciPy stack, CV feature descriptors, geometric estimation—with product-facing workflows like data gathering with subject-matter experts and bias analysis. Comfortable moving models from research to mobile and cloud environments, he routinely bridges domain expertise and practical deployment constraints. An underappreciated strength is his background in numerical modelling and distributed computing, which informs robust, interpretable approaches to complex data problems.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Anglo European School, IngatestoneMaster of Physics (MPhys), Physics, 2:1, Master of Physics (MPhys), Physics, 2:1 at University of Bath
Github Skills (8)
graph-algorithms10
data-science9
data-mining9
information-retrieval9
subgraph8
data-analysis8
api2
python2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
digicatapult/fornax
Jun 2018 - Apr 2021
Approximate fuzzy subgraph matching in polynomial time
Contributions:434 commits, 23 PRs, 100 pushes in 2 years 10 months
subgraphdata-mininginformation-retrievalgraph-algorithmssearch-algorithm
signal-ai/simple-signal-python-api-client
Nov 2021 - Dec 2021
Some reusable code to facilitate interacting with the Signal API using python.
Contributions:2 PRs, 59 pushes, 4 branches in 1 month
apisignalpythonpython3reusable
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