Michael Allwright
AI Development Lead at Alchem-ai
Ghent, East Flanders, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMichael Allwright is an AI Development Lead and founder with over 11 years of hands-on engineering experience and more than 20 years across entrepreneurship, machine learning and AI. He builds generative AI products for regulated industries like insurance and has led AI work addressing neurological disorders, blending research-grade rigour (PhD-level AI) with product-focused delivery. As founder of Alchem-ai and former Head of AI at Frollo, he scales data-driven solutions from prototype to production while advising on strategy and driving cross-functional collaboration. He also channels his entrepreneurial ethics into social impact—running charities that empower people affected by homelessness through photography and income generation. A practical open-source contributor, he has enhanced wasm-bindgen to improve WebAssembly/JavaScript integration, reflecting low-level systems fluency alongside ML expertise. Based in Ghent and UK-rooted, he pairs mathematical training from Imperial College with a knack for translating complex models into actionable business outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc) Mathematics with a year in Europe (MSci), Master of Science (MSc) Mathematics with a year in Europe (MSci) at Imperial College LondonThe University of Sydney
German, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (20)
javascript10
binding10
databinding10
rust10
webassembly10
keybindings10
bind10
atomics9
opengl9
atomic9
camera9
computer-vision9
async-await6
acpi6
linux-device-driver6
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
rustwasm/wasm-bindgen
Jun 2022 - Dec 2022
Facilitating high-level interactions between Wasm modules and JavaScript
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 2 commits, 10 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Michael contributed to the core functionality of the `wasm-bindgen` library by adding support for new WebAssembly features. Their work included implementing bindings for WebAssembly.compileStreaming, WebAssembly.Tag, WebAssembly.Exception, and Atomics.wait with both synchronous and asynchronous variants. The user also refactored existing code, optimizing the stack size and adjusting tests to reflect new functionality. These changes directly improved the WebAssembly integration capabilities.
rustbinding-generatorjavascripthigh-levelasmjs
allsey87/builderbot-firmware
Jun 2015 - Dec 2020
Bootloader and firmware for the ATMega328P processors on the BuilderBot
Contributions:1 PR, 36 pushes, 7 branches in 5 years 7 months
atmega328pbootloaderfirmwareprocessors
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