James Thatcher
Principal AI Engineer at Synack
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJames Thatcher is a Principal AI Engineer with nine years' experience building lean, outcome-driven AI and cloud-native systems that bridge management consulting insight and hands-on software engineering. He designs and ships agentic LLM-driven offensive security products and high-throughput streaming platforms—most recently architecting an external attack surface visualiser with subsecond latencies and leading an agentic vulnerability discovery system. Previously he scaled NHS-focused NLP and ML MVPs into production at PwC, founded internal MLOps capabilities for Jenkins X, and combines strong DevSecOps discipline with a knack for pragmatic research-to-production tradeoffs. Colleagues describe him as results-oriented and intellectually rigorous, who also cultivates positive team dynamics while mentoring engineers in Go, Kubernetes and ML. Outside work he channels the same focus into competitive archery, CrossFit, Krav Maga and bouldering, which he credits for sustaining his problem‑solving stamina.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Machine Learning, Machine Learning at University of CambridgeMSc, MSc at University of BathDeep learning, Artificial Intelligence, Deep learning, Artificial Intelligence at UdacityGlobal Residency, Global Residency at Tsinghua University
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Github Skills (6)
jquery6
bit4
directory-listing2
php2
nginx2
apache1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
jthatch/advent-of-code-php-2020
Sep 2021 - Feb 2022
Contributions:69 commits, 53 pushes, 2 branches in 5 months
jthatch/advent-of-code-2021-php
May 2022 - Jun 2022
Contributions:71 commits, 66 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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