Tim Staley
Staff Machine Learning Engineer at SentinelOne
Oxford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolTim Staley is a Staff Machine Learning Engineer based in Oxford with 14 years of experience blending scientific research and production ML engineering. He holds a PhD in astronomy and has moved from building automated GRB-chasing systems and radio-astronomy pipelines to leading ML platform and SaaS development for industry. Tim excels at translating research workflows into auditable, deployable infrastructure—driving multi-million pound cost savings through workflow migrations and cutting project startup times from days to minutes. He combines deep Python ecosystem expertise (data processing, distributed compute, ML lifecycle tooling) with hands-on backend and cloud architecture skills, and has hired and grown research engineering teams. Notably, his background in high-throughput scientific pipelines gives him a strong edge in designing robust, performance-sensitive ML systems that bridge prototype and production.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Astronomy, Ph.D., Astronomy at University of Cambridge
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Github Skills (186)
python10
astronomy10
lxml10
prediction10
objectify10
statistics10
regression-models10
espn10
xml-parsing10
data-science10
hypothesis-testing10
data-analysis10
routines10
machine-learning10
sqlalchemy10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
timstaley/drive-casa
Nov 2012 - Apr 2018
Contributions:1 release, 73 commits, 1 PR in 5 years 5 months
scriptingcasapipelineroutines
timstaley/drive-ami
Nov 2012 - May 2017
Contributions:96 commits, 3 PRs, 39 pushes in 4 years 6 months
scriptingpipelineami
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