About Me

Hi, I’m Billy — a machine learning engineer based in London, working at the intersection of AI / data science and social good.

I’m currently a Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Sightline Climate (CTVC), helping investors, corporates and governments figure out where to put capital to actually move the needle on climate tech.

Experience

• Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Sightline Climate (CTVC) (current)
• Founding AI Engineer, Cocomo — designed autonomous media buying and marketing optimisation driven by first-party data, as part of building out the SaaS platform.
• Machine Learning Engineer, Trainline — worked on the GenAI-powered Travel Assistant product.
• Senior Data Scientist, EF Education First — built traditional ML applications across marketing, advertising, sales and operations.

Communities & Side Projects

• Co-Founder, KindTech — using technology and AI to support charities and social-good organisations.
• Co-Founder, Reportable (2020 – 2025) — a volunteer group making it easier for East and South East Asian communities in the UK to report and get support around hate crime.
• Crisis Modelling Lead, Europe Must Act (2020 – 2022) — modelled COVID-19 spread in refugee camps and other low-resource settings, in collaboration with the Alan Turing Institute.
• Co-Founder, AI for Good London (2019 – 2022) — a community building hands-on AI projects for social impact.
• Long-term volunteer, DataKind UK — supporting charities with responsible data and AI use.
• Summer Fellow, Data Science for Social Good Foundation (2020).
• Talent, UNLEASH — Innovation Lab for the UN SDGs, Shenzhen (2019).

Education

University of Cambridge — MEng, Information and Computer Engineering & Mechanical Engineering (2015 – 2019)

Final-year modules included Probabilistic Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Computer Vision, Robotics, Computational Neuroscience, Software Engineering & Design, and Climate Change Mitigation.

Get in Touch

Always open to opportunities to collaborate on AI for Social Good / Impact / Tech for Good projects. If that sounds like you, please reach out via the links below.

Elsewhere

You’ll find shorter notes scattered across Musings, Tidbits, and Hacks — and if you’re in London and need a laptop spot, my running list of laptop-friendly cafés is here too.