David Hollands
Principal Data Engineer @BBC
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WORK HISTORY
Principal Data Engineer @BBC
We develop and operate customer facing machine learning based recommender systems at scale for well-known BBC digital products: BBC iPlayer, BBC Sounds, BBC News, BBC Sport, and BBC World Service.
EDUCATION
Royal Holloway, University of London
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science (Information Security), First Class Honours
Royal Holloway, University of London
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science and Information Security, Incomplete
SKILLS
ABOUT DAVID HOLLANDS
I enjoy working in cross-functional (software/data/ML) engineering teams to provide high-impact solutions to challenging problems. An experienced technology professional with a demonstrated history of working in financial services and the broadcast media industry developing and operating data-intensive applications that delight millions of users. Combines product thinking, software architecture, and advanced analytics skills, with commercial and project management experience.Recent experience with- stateful stream processing (Kafka, Pub/Sub, Flink, Beam, Dataflow, k8s)- feature engineering and feature serving for machine learning based recommender systems and algorithms (Spark, Flink, Beam, DuckDB, Bigtable, DynamoDb, Redis, k8s)- JVM (Java, Scala) based technologies as well as Typescript and PythonHappy working on AWS, GCP, or on-premise.Currently curious about data processing accelerators making use of Rust/CUDA such as: Apache DataFusion Comet and NVIDIA Merlin.
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