David Baines
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolDavid Baines is an experienced technologist focused on applying AI to translation for low-resource languages, drawing on 25 years with SIL and a physics background from Heriot-Watt University. Since 2019 he has partnered with multiple translation teams to build practical machine translation models that respect linguistic diversity and field workflows. His earlier work on the FieldWorks team gave him hands-on expertise in software testing, user support, and converting dictionaries from Toolbox, bridging developer tools and community needs. Career postings across the Philippines, Belgium, and Chad reflect a willingness to work in diverse, resource-constrained environments and learn local languages and practices. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who blends engineering discipline with deep respect for linguistic communities.
9 years of coding experience
Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh Campus
Github Skills (33)
derived10
parallel10
corpus10
derived-data10
database10
audio9
nlp8
python8
natural-language-processing8
pytorch8
llm7
machine-learning7
mappings7
deep-learning7
transformer6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
davidbaines/ebible_code
May 2025 - May 2026
Contributions:6 reviews, 9 PRs, 22 pushes in 1 year
BibleNLP/ebible
Mar 2022 - Feb 2023
Curated corpus of parallel data derived from versions of the Bible provided by eBible.org.
Contributions:30 reviews, 66 commits, 32 PRs in 10 months
biblederived-dataparallelcorpusderived
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