Mikel Bober-irizar
Co-Founder & CTO at Iconic
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMikel 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
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng, Computer Science, Master of Engineering - MEng, Computer Science at University of CambridgeRoyal Grammar School, GuildfordNanodegree, Machine Learning, Nanodegree, Machine Learning at Udacity
Spanish, Basque, Polish, English
Github Skills (200)
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Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
camvote/bob-providers
Nov 2021 - Mar 2025
Organisations that can host elections on camvote.org
Contributions:1 review, 10 PRs, 26 pushes in 3 years 4 months
hostorganisationselectionsdjangomhealth
mxbi/popskill
Jan 2021 - Mar 2021
Custom CS:GO Skill Rating system
Contributions:6 reviews, 82 commits, 8 PRs in 1 month
rating-systemratingcs-gocsgo
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