Ronan Walters

Senior Machine Learning Engineer @NatWest Group

Edinburgh, GB

Tooling and Skills: AWS Sagemaker, Airflow, Snowflake, Kafka, StreamSets, GitLab, Python, CICD, Shell Scripting- Played a pivotal role in establishing and embedding a brand new MLOps team in our Climate business, helping to define team remit, establishing new ways of working with existing matured teams within the business, and presenting on proposals to senior leadership- Managed the successful delivery of multiple Climate models into a controlled and governed production environment to support key Climate reporting. Experience includes defining delivery plans, embedding business requirements into the success criteria of a delivery, creating solution architectures, and communicating and presenting updates to senior leadership and model owners- Demonstrated a strong understanding of engineering and infrastructure best practices- Lead on internal development spikes to support the adoption of strategic tooling and the upskilling of colleagues- Lead on the adoption and upskilling of colleagues on GitLab CICD pipelines. With 4x MLOps resources obtaining GitLab CICD certifications and 100% of MLOps code repositories having CI pipelines in place- Lead on recruitment for permanent Machine Learning Engineer positions within the team- Managed two Machine Learning Engineers within the team, as well as multiple Data & Analytics graduates.

University of Liverpool

Bachelor's degree, Artificial Intelligence

University of Liverpool

Big Data and High Performance Computing MSc, Computer Science

St Thomas More Catholic Academy

GCSE, Maths

St Thomas More Catholic Academy

GCSE, English

Newcastle-under-Lyme College

A level, Computing, Physics & Maths