Nick Lester
Technical Data Scientist
Greater Leicester Area United Kingdom
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Top SchoolNick Lester is a Technical Data Scientist with nine years of experience applying practical ML and time-series forecasting to commercial problems across retail, logistics and energy. He has led small data teams and owner-led projects—from forecasting warehouse operations and purchase-order delivery times to building explainable classification models that improved customer service and reduced interventions in educational settings. Nick combines rigorous exploratory analysis and hypothesis testing with hands-on skills in Python, web scraping and model deployment, and he enjoys pushing boundaries by building predictive football betting models that exploit market inefficiencies. Comfortable translating technical work to stakeholders, he has a track record of turning insights into operational changes that boost efficiency and service, and he brings a coach’s mindset—mentoring colleagues and coaching his daughter’s football team—to his collaborative approach.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Data Science, Data Science at • Pairview Data Science BSc Sports Science & Coaching Sports and Exercise, BSc Sports Science & Coaching Sports and Exercise at Solent UniversityYOLOv8: Video Object Detection with Python on Custom Dataset Computer Science, YOLOv8: Video Object Detection with Python on Custom Dataset Computer Science at Udemy AlumniMaster's degree Data Science, Master's degree Data Science at Coventry University
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Github Skills (47)
event-sourcing10
sink10
kafka9
docker9
graph9
data-warehouse8
knowledge-graph8
event-streaming8
warehouse8
zookeeper8
kubernetes8
cloudwatch6
avro6
scala-macros5
private-subnets5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
nicklester/CM-Well
Jan 2018 - Jun 2019
CM-Well - a data warehouse for your knowledge graph
Contributions:2 PRs, 178 pushes, 109 branches in 1 year 5 months
warehouseknowledgeknowledge-graphdata-warehousegraph
nicklester/fargate-service
Oct 2020 - Jan 2024
Fargate service
Contributions:6 PRs, 4 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 4 months
golangfargatedocker
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