Steve Wattam
Head Of Data Science
Manchester, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolSteve Wattam is Head of Data Science at KrakenFlex with 12 years of experience blending academic rigor and product-focused data science across energy, security, NLP and epidemiology. He holds a PhD in Computational Linguistics and Applied Statistics from Lancaster University and transitioned from post‑doc and teaching roles into industry as an early KrakenFlex team member, now leading their data science function. Steve designs and operationalises large‑scale NLP toolchains and probabilistic analyses, bringing a researcher's curiosity to production problems while valuing programming as an art. He has run an academic consultancy and published tools for linguistic analysis, reflecting a habit of turning exploratory research into reusable engineering. Based in Manchester, he describes himself as a “data, research and language nerd” and wryly anticipates the day AI replaces him—while actively building the systems that advance it.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computational Linguistics; Applied Statistics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computational Linguistics; Applied Statistics at Lancaster University
Stackoverflow
525reputation
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Github Skills (44)
optimization8
nonlinear-programming8
mathematical-programming8
disambiguation7
gurobi7
word-sense-disambiguation7
modeling7
python7
linear-programming7
socket6
fileio6
readable6
command-prompt6
tcp6
human-readable6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
StephenWattam/CV
Jul 2016 - Nov 2021
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 4 months
StephenWattam/CQPWeb
Aug 2014 - Mar 2015
Contributions:13 commits, 12 pushes in 7 months
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