Edward Minnett
MSc Student at The University of Edinburgh
Vale of White Horse, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolEdward Minnett is an experienced product and engineering leader now studying MSc Data & AI Ethics at the University of Edinburgh, focusing on the intersection of AI ethics, philosophy, and storytelling in tech. With over a decade leading full-stack engineering, NLP and safety product teams, he scaled Spirit AI’s core toxicity-detection product from prototype to production and shepherded its acquisition and integration into Twitch/Amazon. At Twitch he launched a new safety service and owned roadmap and stakeholder alignment across Community Health, demonstrating both technical gatekeeping and cross-organisational delivery. Comfortable switching between hands-on engineering and strategic product roles, he has deep practical experience with scalable architectures (Kafka, Elasticsearch), NLP, and customer-facing AI services. He combines startup grit—founding and leading product at Spirit—with corporate integration experience, and now pairs that background with academic rigour in AI ethics. An unexpected throughline in his career is a long-standing emphasis on storytelling and user experience as levers for safer, more empowering AI.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Data & AI Ethics, MSc, Data & AI Ethics at The University of EdinburghUdacity Nanodegree, Natural Language Processing, Udacity Nanodegree, Natural Language Processing at UdacityBEnD (Honours With Distinction), Faculty of Applied Science: Environmental Design with Maths, Physics, and Computer Science, BEnD (Honours With Distinction), Faculty of Applied Science: Environmental Design with Maths, Physics, and Computer Science at The University of British ColumbiaPhotography, Photography at Focal Point Visual Arts Learning Center
English
Github Skills (36)
mongodb10
realtime9
javascript9
npm9
build-system9
nodejs9
react9
reactive-programming9
inferno8
rpc8
meteor8
zero-configuration7
microfrontend7
bun7
app-platform7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
eminnett/ai-for-robotics
Aug 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:19 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
eminnett/ml-nanodegree-capstone
Oct 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:25 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 9 days
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