Summary
Gerard Wilkinson is a Staff Gen AI Research Engineer and senior software leader with 11 years’ experience building data-intensive, production-ready systems across finance and healthcare. Based in Manchester, he combines academic rigour from a PhD in Computing Science with hands-on engineering, currently applying responsible AI within NatWest’s CAIRO team. As Director and Head of Engineering at Think Active Labs he shipped an NHS-deployed energy-expenditure algorithm and a sensor-data SaaS platform, and grew early revenue from returning customers. Previously he led cloud-native modernisation and DevOps adoption at Ignite, training teams in Kubernetes and delivering multi-tenant, high-throughput web platforms. Comfortable spanning research and product delivery, he has a track record of turning novel algorithms and IoT integrations into operational services in regulated environments.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Computing Science Computing, PhD Computing Science Computing at Newcastle University