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George Burton

George Burton

Technical Lead

Bristol, UK
07951667852

Background


About

About

I am a generalist who is comfortable adapting to diverse problems. Most recently I have been one of the initial engineers in the Civil Service's Incubator for AI where I have steered projects using exciting but novel technologies from their beginnings in hackathons to approved, and trusted applications that have scaled to be used by thousands of users.

Work Experience

Work Experience

  • Lead Engineer G6, i.AI, Department of Science and Technology

    Sep, 2023 - Present

    As a devops Engineer I have designed and implemented multiple applications including self-hosted AI embedding models to web apps with 100,000+ users.

    • Team Lead for Redbox, a cross department chat interface and LLM abstraction layer with many thousands of users.

    • I have steered my team towards using cross-application services such as Internal-Access for SSO and LiteLLM for LLMs such that these are now part of our core infrastructure.

  • Staff Engineer, Condense Reality

    Mar, 2022 - Jun, 20231 year 3 months

    I worked on a volumetric video platform in a team of 3. Our primary responsibility was the real-time routing of audio and video data from core C++ algorithms to the cloud for compression and streaming.

    • Designed and delivered substantial features in Go, Python, C++.

    • Worked with REST, gRPC, WebSockets & WebRTC.

  • Lead Engineer, Unai

    Jun, 2018 - Mar, 20223 years 9 months

    Led a team to develop substantial portions of the clinical test ordering system for Genomics England.

    • Designed and delivered a FastAPI application to expose Natural Language Processing tools for the SNOMED Medical Ontologies Validation service.

    • Significantly improved the performance of the machine learning algorithm used in a ticketing company.

  • Technical Director, Counterpoint Market Intelligence

    Jan, 2017 - Jun, 20181 year 5 months

    Migrated multiple models from Excel to one coherent view in Azure SQL-Server. Provided market insights for the largest companies in the industry to understand and transform the supply chain.

  • Vice President, Nomura

    Sep, 2012 - Dec, 20164 years 3 months

    Worked in the Quantitative Risk department responsible for computing the risk on 2+ million trades per day. Helped ensure that the bank was ready for the new Regulatory Framework.

    • Quantitative lead for prototyping the 'Standardized Based Approach'.

    • Led efforts to develop a comprehensive quant-code framework using IPython.

  • C# Developer, d-fine

    Mar, 2011 - Sep, 20121 year 6 months

Skills

Skills

  • Python

    Django

    FastAPI

    pandas

    numpy

  • Golang

    gRPC

    webservices

  • C++

    gRPC

    webservices

  • Typescript/React
  • GCP

    GKE

    GCE

    Terraform

  • AWS managed services

    lambda functions

    step functions

    Dynamo DB

    RDS

  • Devops

    ECS

    K3s

    Docker

    Terraform

    GitHub Actions

  • Management

    mentoring

    technical interviews

    product developmemt

Education

Education

  • Theoretical Particle Physics, PhD, University of Edinburgh

    - Jan, 2011

  • Natural Sciences, M.Sci, Durham University

    - Jun, 2006

    Mathematics

    Physics