Nick Walton
Smart Metering Solution Consultant at Vodafone Global Enterprise
Darlington, England, United Kingdom
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RockstarNick Walton is a Smart Metering Solution Consultant with nearly a decade of hands-on experience delivering IoT and applied computing solutions across industries, from R&D at Unilever to Vodafone’s global IoT platform. He combines systems-level technical skills—database design, web security, programming and hardware integration—with a talent for translating diverse stakeholder needs into practical, revenue-generating deployments. At Vodafone he helps partners adopt 4G and NB-IoT for smarter metering, drawing on prior work with 2G and SMHAN systems to smooth migrations and optimise offerings. A pragmatic full-stack contributor, he also worked on an open-source JavaScript BPE encoder/decoder for GPT models, demonstrating fluency with modern ML tooling and character-set edge cases. Colleagues value his interdisciplinary approach—he’s comfortable collaborating with engineers, scientists and anthropologists—and his long-term aim is to bring new IT capabilities into under-served domains.
9 years of coding experience
English
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Github Skills (3)
javascript10
text-manipulation9
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
latitudegames/GPT-3-Encoder
Sep 2020 - Jan 2023
Javascript BPE Encoder Decoder for GPT-2 / GPT-3
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 26 commits, 4 PRs in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Nick primarily worked on implementing and refining the JavaScript BPE encoder/decoder for GPT-2 and GPT-3. Their contributions include creating the core `Encoder.js` file, fixing an emoji-related bug, and making minor updates to existing components. The user also integrated and updated the `example.js` file to demonstrate the encoder/decoder functionality. The changes indicate a focus on both backend logic and ensuring the project's usability and compatibility with various character sets.
encoder-decodergptjavascript
BYU-PCCL/holodeck
Mar 2018 - Nov 2019
High Fidelity Simulator for Reinforcement Learning and Robotics Research.
Contributions:144 commits, 59 PRs, 156 pushes in 1 year 8 months
reinforcement-learningroboticsunreal-engineaidrones
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