James Kelly
Chief Technology Officer at Passio AI
Lancaster, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Kelly is a CTO and AI researcher with 12 years of experience building mobile-first computer vision and ML platforms, currently leading technical strategy at Passio AI. He architected and shipped the Nutrition-AI SDK installed on millions of phones, combining hierarchical classification, real-time 3D weight estimation, OCR matching against a 200k+ food database, and on-device efficient models. James designed MindsEye, a CLIP-derived system that trains classifiers from text alone and runs in real time on phones, and he built self-service ML pipelines that produce production-ready mobile SDKs. His background includes low-level embedded and GNSS navigation software, plus a PhD in Astrophysics where he developed Monte Carlo simulations of solar energetic particle transport. He blends deep research rigor with product-focused engineering and a knack for squeezing state-of-the-art models into constrained mobile environments. Based in Lancaster, UK, he pairs systems-level leadership with hands-on model and pipeline implementation across the full ML lifecycle.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Astrophysics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Astrophysics at University of Central LancashireA Levels Mathematics Electronics Physics, A Levels Mathematics Electronics Physics at Morecambe High School
Github Skills (67)
coremltools9
calculator9
alpaca9
model-conversion9
editing9
computer-vision8
validation8
machine-learning8
pytorch8
android8
fastapi7
deep-learning7
pitch7
streaming7
video-processing7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
kells1986/hello-github-actions
Mar 2021 - Nov 2022
Contributions:2 PRs, 38 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 8 months
kells1986/Betfair-Finktank-Tool
Dec 2013 - Dec 2013
Contributions:16 commits in 1 day
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