Oliver Gordon
Senior Solutions Engineer at Databricks
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolOliver Gordon is a Senior Solutions Engineer with eight years of experience bringing machine learning research into production across data-intensive enterprises, now delivering customer success at Databricks after senior roles at Ataccama and Tamr. He holds a PhD in Machine Learning from the University of Nottingham, where he developed real-time inference methods 100x faster than competitors and built open-source tooling now deployed on multi‑million‑pound equipment. Oliver blends hands-on Python engineering, test automation (notably improving scikit-image’s threshold_otsu tests), and DataOps/Product engineering to scale ML systems and streamline sales-to-delivery transitions that accelerated time-to-value by 6x. Known for converting skeptical stakeholders into advocates, he has driven product improvements that secured renewals and materially influenced roadmaps across regulated and commercial sectors.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Physics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Physics at University of NottinghamA Levels: Maths (A*) Physics (A) Chemistry (A) Biology AS (A), A Levels: Maths (A*) Physics (A) Chemistry (A) Biology AS (A) at Wetherby High School
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Github Skills (6)
testing10
scikit-image10
python10
image-processing10
numpy10
computer-vision9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
scikit-image/scikit-image
Jul 2020 - Jul 2020
Image processing in Python
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:10 commits, 2 PRs, 6 comments in 2 days
Contributions summary:Oliver primarily focused on improving the `threshold_otsu` function in the `scikit-image` library. Their contributions include fixing logic errors, adding missing quotations, and updating tests to validate the function's behavior with various input scenarios. They addressed edge cases, ensuring the function behaved correctly when dealing with single-value images and single-color images, and also performed PEP8 compliance fixes. These contributions focused on code quality and testing.
image-processingpythoncomputer-vision
OGordon100/CSD-Inator
Apr 2018 - May 2018
A program capable of beating the "stress" mode of the game Cook Serve Delicious 2 (and earn a very rare achievment)
Contributions:31 commits, 28 pushes, 1 branch in 23 days
cookdeliciousserverare
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