David Hollands

Principal Data Engineer @BBC

London, GB
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WORK HISTORY

Apr 2021 — Present

Principal Data Engineer @BBC

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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

2007 — 2010

Royal Holloway, University of London

Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science (Information Security), First Class Honours

2010 — 2012

Royal Holloway, University of London

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science and Information Security, Incomplete

SKILLS

CHiveGoogle BigqueryPysparkJavaGoogle App EngineGoogle DataflowTeradataData AnalysisRequirements AnalysisRAnalyticsData AnalyticsData ModelingApache SparkSasHadoopGoogle Cloud PlatformApache BeamPythonSql

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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