Finlay Thompson
Director Data Science
Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
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Top SchoolFinlay Thompson is Director of Data Science at Dragonfly with 15 years' experience blending mathematical rigour and hands-on software and database development to deliver practical analytical solutions. A PhD in Mathematical Physics informs his analytical depth and preference for elegant, reliable approaches to complex problems. He has grown through roles from senior developer to operations lead, CEO, and now technical director, giving him rare end-to-end perspective on productising data science. Finlay focuses on making models work in production, steering technical strategy while still engaging in code and architecture decisions. Based in Wellington, he combines academic training with entrepreneurial instincts honed running Dragonfly, and often frames problems through a quantitative lens that uncovers non-obvious simplifications.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Mathematics at Victoria University of WellingtonDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Mathematical Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Mathematical Physics at Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati di TriesteBurnside High School
English, Italian
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (92)
storage10
s3-bucket10
amazon-s310
servant9
aws-s39
k8s9
filesystem9
dragonfly9
api8
github-api8
cloud-object-storage8
ministry8
hugo8
aws8
bit8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
finlay/servant-github
Dec 2015 - Dec 2022
servant types to access the GitHub API v3
Contributions:59 commits, 17 PRs, 56 pushes in 7 years 1 month
apigithub-api-v3api-v3servant
dragonfly-science/bailiwick-ui
Mar 2018 - Nov 2019
Bailiwick frontend
Contributions:227 pushes, 2 branches, 13 comments in 1 year 8 months
reactjavascriptfrontendodk
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