Thomas Bird
Head Of Engineering And Data Science
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolThomas Bird is a Head of Engineering and Data Science with 9+ years turning complex data into business impact across finance, biotech, and consumer goods, grounded in a PhD in Experimental Particle Physics from CERN. He builds scalable real-time analytics and MLOps systems that move teams from weeks to minutes of analysis—skills forged on LHCb-scale datasets and applied to microbial production, fermentation scheduling, and real-time pricing engines. He has a strong track record of shipping products that reduce waste and unlock revenue (multi-million pound impacts), designing centralised data platforms and user-facing apps that democratise scientific and operational data. A pragmatic leader and mentor, he bridges research and engineering to scale prototypes into core products and spinouts, and contributes to data tooling and reproducible pipelines that make analytics reliable and auditable.
9 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Experimental Particle Physics, PhD Experimental Particle Physics at The University of ManchesterMaster of Particle Physics with Year Abroad, Master of Particle Physics with Year Abroad at University of Southampton
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Github Skills (44)
named-entity-recognition10
identifiable10
text-classification10
language-processing10
cython10
turkish10
arabic-nlp9
artificial-intelligence9
entity-linking9
python9
machine-learning9
nltk9
fairness-ml9
natural-language-processing9
ai9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
LeapBeyond/scrubadub
Sep 2020 - Oct 2021
Clean personally identifiable information from dirty dirty text.
Contributions:5 releases, 31 reviews, 675 commits in 1 year 1 month
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LeapBeyond/scrubadub_address
Sep 2021 - Oct 2021
Contributions:3 releases, 13 commits, 7 pushes in 6 days
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