Matthew Docherty
Senior Data Scientist
Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Docherty is a Senior Data Scientist based in Glasgow with six years of experience applying machine learning and data analytics across e-commerce, research and financial services. He blends academic rigour from a Physics with Astrophysics master’s and UCL PhD research experience with practical product-facing roles at ASOS and Trespass, focusing on search and recommendation improvements. At Oldbaum Services he progressed from Data Scientist to Senior Data Scientist before moving to Barclays, demonstrating rapid impact and increasing responsibility in industry settings. Matthew has hands-on experience mentoring students and translating research prototypes into production-facing solutions, and he’s comfortable teaching Python and ML to diverse audiences. His background in solar physics research reveals a talent for modelling complex systems and a curiosity for using ML to accelerate computationally intensive science. Colleagues describe him as a research-driven practitioner who looks for elegant, data-backed solutions that scale.
6 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Physics with Astrophysics, Master's degree Physics with Astrophysics at University of Glasgow
Github Skills (3)
bayesian-inference10
bayesian10
machine-learning9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
mmdocherty/mmdocherty.github.io
Dec 2021 - Oct 2022
Contributions:28 commits, 32 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
mmdocherty/website
Jul 2022 - Feb 2024
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
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