Summary
Sebastian Kelly is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer with eight years’ experience building production ML systems and recommendation platforms, currently leading end-to-end recommender development at Reach plc. He designs scalable, automated training and deployment pipelines (SageMaker, StepFunctions, CloudFormation) and has shipped high-throughput model serving that handles 10k+ RPM with sub-percent error rates. His background spans applied deep learning (image smart-cropping), reinforcement learning for personalization, and robust data engineering across AWS, Elasticsearch and streaming stacks. Outside work he runs T3chFlicks, an edutainment startup that showcases hardware and cloud projects, demonstrating an ability to translate research-grade ideas into accessible, production-ready products. He prefers initial contact by email/text and is selective about roles, prioritising real-time media or recommendation engineering challenges.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Physics, Physics at University of Warwick