Shahin Rostami
Principal Consultant at Bournemouth University
Bournemouth, England, United Kingdom
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolShahin Rostami is a Principal Consultant and founder with two decades of experience blending data science, software engineering, and academic research to build practical AI products for healthcare, defence, and cyber security. He leads Polyra’s data science practice and homespun SaaS products—PlotPanel, PlotAPI and VersionAI—that turn complex experiments and data visualisations into audit-ready, beautiful outputs. A published author of four books on data science, visualisation and evolutionary computation, he also founded Plotapi.com, whose visualisations have been used by academia, government and industry. His background as a senior academic and programme leader informs a methodical approach to education, reproducibility and governance in ML projects. An active open-source contributor, he has hands-on experience improving developer tooling and Jupyter integrations in notable projects like datapane. Based in Bournemouth, he combines research rigor with product-focused engineering to deliver measurable impact across regulated and mission-critical domains.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bournemouth GrammarBsc (Hons), Computing, First Class, Bsc (Hons), Computing, First Class at The Manchester Metropolitan University
Stackoverflow
1reputation
0reached
0answers
0questions
Github Skills (8)
data-visualizations10
jupyter-notebook10
data-visualization10
data-visualisation10
python10
documentation9
dashboard8
altair8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
datapane/datapane
May 2022 - Jan 2023
Build and share data reports in 100% Python
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:56 reviews, 172 commits, 60 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Shahin contributed to the `datapane/datapane` repository, which focuses on building and sharing data reports using Python. Their work included implementing network options for pyppeteer page loading, removing unused imports, and updating community links. Additionally, the user addressed a bug related to Jupyter integration within the VS Code environment and contributed to the component catalog by adding a calendar heatmap component and other documentation updates.
data-analysispythonreportssciencereporting
shahinrostami/theme-purple-please
Jun 2019 - Nov 2022
A JupyterLab theme extension which provides the Purple Please theme.
Contributions:13 commits, 2 PRs, 17 pushes in 3 years 5 months
jupyterlab-extensionjupyterlabjupyterlab-themejupyterpurple
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.