James Luo
Head Of Data And AI
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Luo is a seasoned technology leader with 11 years of experience driving data-driven transformation in financial software, currently serving as Head of Data and AI at BGL Corporate Solutions in Melbourne. He has built Big Data and AI capabilities from the ground up—leading the creation of BGL’s unified Big Data/Data Lake platform and shipping industry-first deep learning models that automate bank transaction categorization for accountants. His work spans end-to-end systems: real-time pipelines (Kinesis, Spark, EMR), ML/DL (TensorFlow/Keras), search and analytics (ElasticSearch, ELK), and modern web and mobile front ends (React/React Native). James moved BGL from desktop-only to cloud-native SaaS, shortened release cycles, and introduced rigorous engineering practices like pull-request workflows and performance testing. He combines hands-on engineering with strategic product leadership, now focusing on new offerings such as SmartDocs 360 and SmartDocs AI Studio. An early adopter of applied deep learning in regtech, he once trained models on 200+ million transactions achieving high practical accuracy—saving accountants significant manual effort.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc) Software Technology, Master of Science (MSc) Software Technology at The Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityDeep Learning Nanodegree Foundation Machine Learning Deep Learning, Deep Learning Nanodegree Foundation Machine Learning Deep Learning at Udacity
English, Chinese
Github Skills (71)
vehicle-detection10
intellij10
clojure9
math-library9
python9
gpu9
aws9
linear-algebra9
deeplearning4j9
keras9
artificial-intelligence9
spark9
java9
scala9
dl4j9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
jluo-bgl/Self-Driving-Car-Vehicle-Detection
Feb 2017 - Jun 2017
Self Driving Car Vehicle Detection
Contributions:1 release, 19 commits, 16 pushes in 4 months
self-driving-carvehicle-detection
detectiveframework/detective
Jul 2014 - Feb 2020
The Bug Detective
Contributions:161 commits, 12 PRs, 44 pushes in 5 years 7 months
detective
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