Kit Burgess
Staff Machine Learning Engineer at Zapier
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolKit Burgess is a Staff Machine Learning Engineer based in London with 8 years of experience building large-scale production AI systems that have generated over $10M ARR. He combines end-to-end ML expertise—from high-volume data ingestion and ETL to training, inference and runtime monitoring—across GCP and AWS, and has practical MLOps leadership experience introducing Vertex AI and designing robust data architectures. A former founder, Kit brings product-minded urgency and bias-to-action, having built revenue-generating platforms and led engineering teams through rapid iteration. He’s fluent in a wide range of languages and frameworks (Python, Scala, Rust, PyTorch, LlamaIndex, Kubeflow) and has a track record of shipping industry-first tooling and SDKs that scaled startups from seed to Series B. Notably, he built Kraftwerk, a model-parameter mutation platform that materially improved dozens of production models, reflecting his focus on practical systems that amplify domain expertise.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Mathematics, Bachelor’s Degree Mathematics at University of CambridgeHigh School, High School at Bishop Luffa Church of England School
python, go, java, scala, kotlin
Github Skills (41)
javascript10
artificial-intelligence10
llm10
huggingface10
openai10
sdk10
vue10
generative-ai10
svelte10
anthropic10
react10
nextjs9
typescript9
solidjs9
language-model9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
VorTECHsa/python-sdk
Oct 2019 - May 2021
Vortexa DataScience SDK
Contributions:18 reviews, 789 commits, 284 PRs in 1 year 7 months
datasciencesdk
V0RT3X4/hello_mars
Nov 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:50 pushes, 2 branches, 11 tags in 5 days
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