Richard Hayes
Lead AI Engineer at RGH SOFTWARE LTD
St Albans, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard Hayes is a Lead AI Engineer and founder with 11 years' experience building production-grade AI, cloud and data platforms across biotech, healthcare, fintech and astronomy. He designs scalable systems—from a high-throughput genomic platform for antibiotic discovery to an in-memory LLM RAG for document parsing—and brings hands-on expertise in Python, AWS, Docker and large-scale parallel processing. As Head of Engineering at a surgical AI startup he integrated safety-critical computer vision into clinical workflows, and his open-source Bayesian tools developed with Durham University have supported high-profile astrophysics research. Known for mentoring teams and translating research into products, he combines a physicist’s analytical rigor with entrepreneurial pragmatism and a curiosity for music, art and personal AI projects.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Physics, First Class, Master's degree, Physics, First Class at University of Nottingham
Github Skills (53)
probabilistic-programming10
cosmology10
python10
image-processing10
astronomy10
image10
statistics10
machine-learning10
graphical-models10
placement10
astrophysics10
mcmc10
physics10
morphology10
probabilistic10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
rhayes777/DataDictionary2Code
Nov 2016 - Mar 2022
An attempt to generate an SQLAlchemy model code from a Data Dictionary in CSV format
Contributions:2 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 4 months
dictionarycsvpythonsqlalchemysql
rhayes777/Obelisk
Jun 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:148 pushes, 13 branches in 2 months
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