Sam Comber
Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Deliveroo
England, United Kingdom
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolSam Comber is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer with 11 years of applied experience bridging academic research and production ML across finance, retail, telecoms and food tech. He holds a PhD in Applied Machine Learning from the University of Liverpool and has translated that research rigour into production roles at Kraken, Callsign, Marks & Spencer and now Deliveroo. Sam combines probabilistic and geographic data science expertise with practical deployment experience, shipping models that balance robustness and business impact. He has taught statistical modelling at university level and maintains an active research footprint visible on Google Scholar alongside code and experiments on GitHub. Comfortable moving between experimentation and scalable inference, he excels at turning complex data into reliable, production-ready systems. A less obvious strength is his cross-domain fluency—applying academic methods to solve operational problems in diverse industries.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Applied Machine Learning, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Applied Machine Learning at University of LiverpoolBachelor’s Degree, Bachelor’s Degree at University of Birmingham
Github Skills (148)
bind10
scikitlearn-machine-learning10
obfuscation10
cross-validation10
geostatistics9
data-matching9
duplicate9
gpt9
transformer9
python9
python-scripts9
sklearn9
pytorch9
llm9
inference9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
SamComber/spacv
Jun 2020 - Sep 2020
Spatial cross-validation in Python.
Contributions:66 commits, 2 PRs, 61 pushes in 2 months
pythonspatial-analysisgeostatisticsvalidationspatial
SamComber/twitter_lse
Jul 2017 - Nov 2023
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 5 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.