Experience

Where I've worked, studied and taught, and the tools I build with.

  1. 2026 to now
    Ventures

    Co-founder, Verentis

    Building an autonomous AI sales team that finds who owns a decision inside target accounts, with cited evidence on every name.

  2. 2026 to now
    Teaching

    Visiting Lecturer, Informatics Institute of Technology

    Supervising undergraduate final-year research projects and systematic literature reviews.

  3. 2026
    Industry

    AI/ML Engineer, Adept Technologies

    Contract. Built CIAP Agent Assist, a real-time AI assistant for contact-centre agents that runs entirely on-premise.

  4. 2026
    Ventures

    Creator, Neebor

    Designed and launched an app that helps residents of shared buildings meet the people living around them.

  5. 2025 to now
    Research

    Doctoral Researcher, Robert Gordon University

    Fully funded studentship on dialogue-based ontological reasoning, so autonomous agents can agree on meaning and stay aligned with people.

  6. 2025 to now
    Research

    Voluntary Researcher, Newcastle University

    Machine learning for food spoilage detection with Dr Oktay Cetinkaya and Prof. Rishad Shafik.

  7. 2025
    Education

    First Class Honours, Artificial Intelligence and Data Science

    Robert Gordon University, taught at Informatics Institute of Technology. Best RGU AI Thesis Award for the cohort.

  8. 2023 to 2025
    Industry

    Data Analytics Engineer, Forestpin

    Led the Forestpin Sanctions Screening Service, from phonetic name matching at scale to a Node.js and React API on Azure.

  9. 2023 to 2024
    Ventures

    Proximagen

    Designed and built an AI invoice processing product. Acquired by The Travel Corporation (TTC).

Skills and technologies

AI and agents

  • Multi-agent systems
  • LLM agents
  • Retrieval-augmented generation
  • Ontologies and knowledge graphs
  • Semantic reasoning
  • Model Context Protocol
  • Function calling

Machine learning

  • Deep learning
  • Computer vision
  • Transformers
  • CNNs
  • NLP and embeddings
  • Energy-efficient models
  • Multi-objective optimisation

Engineering

  • Python
  • FastAPI
  • Node.js
  • React
  • REST APIs
  • Multi-tenant systems
  • Automated testing

Frameworks and platforms

  • PyTorch
  • LangChain
  • OpenAI
  • Ollama
  • sentence-transformers
  • Optuna
  • Azure
  • Supabase
  • Microsoft Graph
  • Google Cloud APIs