Oliver Stanley
Machine Learning Engineer at Scale AI
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolOliver Stanley is a Machine Learning Engineer with 14 years of hands-on experience building and shipping ML systems, currently doing post-training research on large language models at Scale AI from London. He has a strong track record designing scalable inference and microservice backends—optimising embedding and reranking pipelines to cut latency and running multi‑GPU training and inference in production. At Netcall and Kainos he delivered RAG and agent-driven features for contact centres and enterprise clients, deployed cloud and edge models with Terraform/Docker, and established zero-downtime CI/CD for mission-critical services. An active open-source contributor, he helped expand the backend of the prominent OpenAssistant project—adding text-labeling workflows and Discord/GitHub integrations to streamline human-in-the-loop data collection. With an MSc in Data Science and early freelance experience across performance-critical systems, he blends rigorous research with pragmatic engineering to move prototypes into reliable, scalable products.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Wolverhampton Grammar SchoolMaster's degree Data Science, Master's degree Data Science at City St George’s, University of LondonBachelor's degree Economics, Bachelor's degree Economics at University of Birmingham
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Github Skills (22)
fastapi10
python10
apidoc10
back-end-development10
api10
sql10
discord-bot10
backend10
postgresql9
database-design8
github-oauth7
ai7
html6
amazon-sagemaker6
statsmodels6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
LAION-AI/Open-Assistant
Jan 2023 - Mar 2023
OpenAssistant is a chat-based assistant that understands tasks, can interact with third-party systems, and retrieve information dynamically to do so.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:254 reviews, 43 commits, 214 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Oliver contributed significantly to the backend of the OpenAssistant project, primarily focused on implementing features related to text labeling and Discord bot functionality. Their work included creating tasks for text labels, modifying APIs and database schemas, and integrating Discord bot extensions to handle task requests. They also worked on adding endpoints to manage users, refine labels, and added github and discord login features. These changes suggest a focus on expanding and improving the core functionality of the OpenAssistant project, particularly in managing user interactions and integrating external services.
language-modelpythonpartyassistantchat
Andrewwango/govuk-accessible-search
May 2023 - Jun 2024
An intelligent search bar to improve accessibility on GOV.UK/NHS.UK pages using OpenAI
Contributions:33 reviews, 38 PRs, 92 pushes in 1 year
accessibilityazure-openaichatgptgovuk-design-systemnhsuk
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