Edward Atkins
Head Of Machine Learning at Sandstone
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolEdward Atkins is a Head of Machine Learning with 11 years of experience building production ML systems across NLP, computer vision and tabular workflows, primarily in a Python stack. He has progressed from founding machine learning and software engineering roles to leadership positions managing teams and ML strategy at companies like DealStat, BlueSuit, Berkadia and now Sandstone in New York. Edward combines hands-on pipeline and API development—deploying models for unstructured PDFs, web pages and spreadsheets—with cloud DevOps expertise on AWS to deliver reliable, scalable products. His background in economics and an MSc in Data Science give him a strong quantitative framing for business-facing ML solutions and investment-focused workflows. He has repeatedly led data annotation and transfer-learning initiatives to achieve robust performance with limited labels, and he brings a track record of shipping customer-integrated tooling such as Excel plugins and dashboards. Colleagues would describe him as a pragmatic technical leader who bridges product, engineering and data science to turn domain complexity into operational ML capabilities.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Economics (Hons) & Bachelor of Commerce Economics & Commerce, Bachelor of Economics (Hons) & Bachelor of Commerce Economics & Commerce at The University of Western AustraliaScotch CollegeFull-Stack Coding Bootcamp Python Javascript Django, Full-Stack Coding Bootcamp Python Javascript Django at Byte AcademyMaster of Science (MS) Data Science, Master of Science (MS) Data Science at City St George’s, University of LondonLondon School of Economics and Political Science
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Github Skills (153)
python10
vector-database10
deep-learning10
gpu10
nbdev10
crf10
fastai10
fine-tuning10
gpt10
application10
xpdf10
pytorch10
machine-learning10
llm10
keras10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ecatkins/instabilly
Aug 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:174 PRs, 109 pushes, 177 branches in 5 months
ecatkins/TensorBox
Apr 2017 - Jan 2019
Contributions:23 PRs, 16 pushes, 24 branches in 1 year 9 months
object-detectiontensorflow
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