Mikel Bober-Irizar
United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorMikel Bober-irizar is a Co-Founder and CTO with 11 years of multidisciplinary applied AI experience, blending research and production engineering across games, healthcare, privacy, and custom silicon. He rose to prominence as the youngest Kaggle Competitions Grandmaster at 17 and was once ranked the #1 data scientist in the UK, a background that fuels his data-first approach to design. At Iconic he leads ML-driven game systems and infrastructure, serving as Technical Director on their debut title while keeping player experience central. His work spans differential privacy and federated learning (Apple), ASIC-software co-design for ultra-low-latency ML (Jump Trading), and bespoke medical ML at ForecomAI, showing a rare fluency from hardware to high-level research. A self-described "decision-tree-hugger," he pairs rigorous algorithmic thinking with product-focused creativity, often shipping novel ML solutions that bridge academia and playable experiences.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (200)
opencv10
flower10
python10
image-processing10
e-mail10
deep-learning10
mnist10
ml10
neural-network10
computer-vision10
kaggle10
video-editing10
python-modules10
tensorflow10
machine-learning10
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
mxbi/tailscale-hostmap
Sep 2021 - Sep 2022
Automatically map Tailscale hosts to DNS names locally
Contributions:17 commits, 3 PRs, 11 pushes in 11 months
dnstailscale
camvote/bob-gui
Nov 2021 - Jan 2024
GUI to list and/or manage BOB ballot instances
Contributions:1 review, 5 PRs, 14 pushes in 2 years 3 months
instancespythonballotguibob
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