David Fredman
Director at Octofox
Chester, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolDavid Fredman is a director-level AI and data leader with 12+ years of experience turning complex datasets into business advantage across banking, insurance, industrial IoT, health and biotech. He founded and leads Octofox to help organizations set data and AI strategy, prioritize high-value use cases, and industrialize ML solutions—from computer vision and LLMs to condition monitoring and recommender systems. Previously he led Data & Analytics at EY Norway and was a partner and lead data scientist at Sonat, blending hands-on modelling and platform design with sales, mentoring and project leadership. An academic by training with a PhD in Functional Genomics and over 34 peer-reviewed papers, he uniquely bridges rigorous research, reproducible science and production ML. Known for mentoring teams, a relentless curiosity for learning, and an unusual side interest in music and dad jokes, he combines technical depth with a practical, people-focused approach to adoption.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Biotechnology, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Biotechnology at Umeå universitetPhD, Functional Genomics, PhD, Functional Genomics at Karolinska institutet
German, Swedish, Norwegian, English
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Github Skills (55)
firebase9
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database8
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knitr8
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postgresql7
azure-functions7
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
davfre/zmk-config
Oct 2023 - May 2026
Contributions:15 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 7 months
oikoaudio/bitwig-oikontrol
Nov 2025 - Jul 2026
Contributions:5 releases, 13 PRs, 79 pushes in 7 months
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