David Dale
Fractional Head Of AI at Head of AI
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Dale is a pragmatic AI and data leader with 20 years' experience building production data products and turning exploratory AI projects into measurable ROI for mid-market businesses. As founder of The Efficient Data Group and now Fractional Head of AI, he combines hands-on engineering and strategic leadership to cut wasted pilot spend and deliver outcomes across commercial, marketing and editorial functions. His background spans hedge fund alternative data at Winton—where he sped data generation a hundred-fold—to leading an award-winning News UK data science team credited with millions in incremental revenue. Trained as a quantitative researcher (PhD-level modelling of biological complexity) and a former Microsoft engineer, he blends rigorous Bayesian and ML research with pragmatic software delivery. He frequently operates at the intersection of product, data infrastructure and executive strategy, mentoring teams to operationalize models rather than leaving them as experiments. Based in London, he has a track record of turning niche research techniques (HMMs, stochastic PDEs) into practical, revenue-driving systems.
20 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Arts (M.A. Hons), Natural Sciences, Master of Arts (M.A. Hons), Natural Sciences at Christ's College, Cambridge UniversityUniversity College London
Github Skills (114)
dashboard10
erlang-otp10
grafana10
elasticsearch10
influxdb10
monitoring10
gleam10
data-visualization10
observability10
erlang10
mysql10
elixir10
analytics10
go10
prometheus10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
bucko909/erlcapnp
Feb 2014 - Apr 2021
Erlang capnp library
Contributions:235 commits, 12 PRs, 106 pushes in 7 years 3 months
capnperlang
bucko909/powerpod
Sep 2016 - Jun 2017
Contributions:115 commits, 36 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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