Leo Hoare
Head Of Data
Greater Sydney Area Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolLeo Hoare is Head of Data with eight years of experience building production ML and data platforms that drive product growth and personalization for consumer-scale products. At Insight Timer he leads data strategy and scaling of recommender systems, A/B testing, and RAG/agentic workflows to serve over 600k daily active users. He combines a technical focus on robust pipelines and inference at scale with a product-minded emphasis on user expansion and measurable engagement lifts. His background spans hands-on engineering across backend, DevOps and data roles, underpinned by a masters in Data Science, AI and Engineering from UNSW. Colleagues know him for translating cutting-edge AI into pragmatic, deployable systems and for obsessing over efficiency in complex pipelines. Outside work he’s an avid ML-discussion partner and long-distance walker who treats tough hikes like system stress tests.
7 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Summer Exchange (Bachelor) Language Business Culture and Environment, Summer Exchange (Bachelor) Language Business Culture and Environment at Universidad de La SabanaExchange (Bachelor) Environmental Economics, Exchange (Bachelor) Environmental Economics at The University of British ColumbiaBachelor of Economics, Bachelor of Economics at Macquarie UniversityUNSW Sydney
Github Skills (99)
python-client10
sdk9
interactive9
ksqldb9
stream9
confluent9
librdkafka9
confluent-cloud9
kafka-connect9
connect9
producer9
dbt-packages8
sql8
stream-processing8
python8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
leohoare/python-sdk
Nov 2024 - Feb 2025
Python SDK for OpenFeature
Contributions:39 pushes, 5 branches in 3 months
lethrez/PersonalSite
May 2019 - Aug 2019
Contributions:2 PRs, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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