Mike Dewar
Vice President, Data Science
England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMike Dewar is a Vice President of Data Science with 16 years of experience building machine-learning products that tackle financial crime across payments. He leads a compact team of ~10 technologists at Mastercard, taking projects from research and prototyping through production and operations, and previously held senior data science roles at Vocalink, The New York Times, and Bitly. Trained as a control systems engineer with a PhD in complex systems, he blends rigorous academic grounding with practical product delivery in novel domains. He contributes to open-source tooling for data visualization—bridging Python with D3.js—demonstrating hands-on full-stack skills beyond typical model work. Known for marrying advanced algorithms with mission-driven domain expertise, he focuses on reliable, auditable systems that scale in high-stakes, regulated environments.
16 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Masters of Engineering, Control Systems Engineering, Masters of Engineering, Control Systems Engineering at The University of Sheffield
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Github Skills (15)
data-visualizations10
data-visualization10
javascript10
data-visualisation10
d3js10
python10
pandas9
memory-management9
mapreduce6
matlab6
glossary6
sizeof6
rest6
r6
webservice6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
mikedewar/d3py
Aug 2011 - Mar 2017
a plottling library for python, based on D3
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:72 commits, 3 PRs, 2 pushes in 5 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Mike contributed to the d3py library by merging code and implementing new features. They added JavaScript code to the `helper_functions.js` file for drawing time tick labels and time axis labels, improving the visualization capabilities. Further, the user worked on the addition of the bar geom by modifying the `geoms.py` and `d3py.py` files. This shows a focus on enhancing the plotting functionality of the Python library, bridging Python code with JavaScript/D3.js for data visualization.
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mikedewar/RealTimeStorytelling
Jan 2016 - Mar 2016
Contributions:59 commits, 2 PRs, 46 pushes in 1 month
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