Summary
Harry Johnston is a Generative AI Engineer with a decade of experience building practical, production-ready AI systems that bridge research and business impact. With a PhD in Astronomy and Astrophysics and a background in large-scale cosmology, he brings rigorous quantitative thinking to NLP, retrieval and end-to-end ML pipelines. He has led AI efforts at Forestreet—delivering supplier discovery workflows and research agents—and moved quickly from consulting prototypes to production roles across startups and delivery teams. Harry focuses on reliability, scalability and usefulness in real-world settings, comfortable working across the stack from model design to deployment. Based in the UK, he combines academic depth with hands-on product delivery and a knack for turning complex research ideas into pragmatic engineering outcomes.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
University College London