Robin East
Full Stack Engineer at British Airways
South Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRobin East is a Full Stack Engineer and founder with over two decades of experience building production AI, computer vision and large-scale data systems, currently applying his skills at British Airways. He has conceived and shipped the first real-time AI fitness coach and led R&D and CTO roles at startups like BOXRAW and xense.ai, delivering advanced human pose, shape and gait estimation systems used in elite sports. Equally comfortable with hands-on model development (PyTorch, TensorFlow, SMPL) and designing enterprise data pipelines (Spark, Hadoop), he has a strong track record in taking proofs-of-concept to production. He co-authored Spark GraphX in Action, reflecting deep expertise in graph processing and big data architectures. Known for blending Bayesian probabilistic modelling with deep learning, he also brings practical product instincts—evident in systems that produced actionable metrics for world-champion boxing training. Based in South Cambridgeshire, he combines academic rigour (MSc UCL) with entrepreneurial experience building proprietary analytics platforms and teams.
11 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
University College LondonSt Paul's SchoolPostgraduate Diploma Statistics, Postgraduate Diploma Statistics at Birkbeck, University of LondonBachelor of Science (BSc) Economics, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Economics at University of SouthamptonColet Court
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (59)
apache-spark10
spark10
python10
r10
big-data10
hadoop10
apache10
jdbc10
analytics10
large-scale10
java10
scala10
scale10
sql10
data-processing10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
insidedctm/sparse-linear-regression
Nov 2016 - Nov 2022
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years
insidedctm/hlsplayer
Oct 2020 - Aug 2023
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 2 years 10 months
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