Michael Jones
Lead Machine Learning Engineer at Kingfisher plc
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMichael Jones is a Lead Machine Learning Engineer based in London with 7 years’ experience building production-grade AI systems and platforms for retail and consumer products. At Kingfisher he leads the Athena generative-AI orchestration platform and shipped Hello Casto, one of Europe’s first public-facing retail chatbots, while also delivering visual search and forecasting solutions. He pairs hands-on engineering with team leadership, contributes to open-source ML tooling (Agent Development Kit, FastAPI, Pydantic, DSPy) and authors Group AI blog content on NLP and MLOps. With a PhD in particle physics, he brings a strong research background and a track record of turning novel ML research into scalable, user-facing services. A less obvious strength is his experience moving models from prototype to linearly scaling production in constrained embedded and cloud environments.
7 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Physics at The University of Manchester
German
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Github Skills (93)
fastapi10
trainer10
python10
json-schema10
api-client10
swagger10
asgi10
forecast10
pydantic10
openapi10
forecasting-models10
async10
validation10
agent-framework10
pythonic10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
mikeedjones/fastapi
Mar 2023 - Mar 2024
FastAPI framework, high performance, easy to learn, fast to code, ready for production
Contributions:2 releases, 2 PRs, 46 pushes in 11 months
mikeedjones/copy-file-to-chat
May 2023 - Sep 2024
VScode extension to copy the content of a file to the github copuilt chat
Contributions:2 PRs, 25 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 4 months
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