Finding useful information in messy data - Building machine learning products - Deep Learning for NLP - Solving open problems - Building data applications - Cutting straight to the meaningful parts
About
The hype about data science is real, the execution behind it is not.
I help companies bridge the gap. Get my CV
Skills
What I've Been Doing
- Graduated Mechanical Engineering and managed projects @ ExxonMobil Canada
- Moved to Australia (Canada was cold)
- Managed large construction projects @ Senex Energy (Building things was fun)
- Travelled the world while building trading models and dashboards for the stock market
- Began writing about financial markets @ Seeking Alpha
- Broke a quarter of a million views and became an Expert-Contributor at Seeking Alpha
- Moved to Hamburg, Germany and started a data science consultancy
- Worked for great companies and with great people (Zalando, Dreamtalents, Sigma News)
- Married my lovely wife, Irena, on a small island in Denmark
- Moved to Sofia, Bulgaria and met a pair of fascinating entrepeneurs from the UK and Norway whom invited me co-found their hedge-fund turned technology startup, Sigmai
- Built and deployed powerful Natural Language Processing tech at Sigmai with some amazing data scientists, engineers and linguists
- Became a father (Had no idea what I was doing)
- Started selling that technology to hedge-funds and media companies
- Sold Sigmai to Commetric at the tail end of 2018, with the technology being used to help major global brands and fortune 500 companies understand how communcation effects share price.
- Co-founded an Out-of-home advertising company called mobilads and grew it to $5 million in ARR
- Consulted to world-class companies, Y-Combinator alumni, and global hedge funds to help them build and deploy deep learning.
- Built some of the world's best legal translation algoriths at Bluescribe.
- Consulted at VoiceOps, building a series of industry first hybrid-transformers for ASR post-processing, call-center optimization and text classification.
- Became a repeat dad. Still as confused as ever.
- Built a series of high-sharpe ratio trading strategies at Avatar Securites
- Building quantitative trading infrastructure and trying to figure out capital markets using modern data science.
2012-2015
2015
2016
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2018
2019/2020
2020
2021 till Now
Some Advice For Myself
- Learn every day; don't worry so much about what you are learning as long as it's something you're interested in.
- Excel in a career that mixes opportunity with something you love doing.
- Set deadlines. Even if you don't think you need them, you need them, so set them.
- Don't be afraid of change.
Strive to be a better person.Be a better person, be kind, be giving.- Shutup and listen more.