Vetted on a call by a Wave consultant, not scraped. £85,000 to £110,000.
Full-stack for most of their career, and they have spent the recent years pushing hard into AI. Python for 10 of those years, with TensorFlow, PyTorch, LangChain and LangGraph on top, and AWS, Terraform, Docker and Kubernetes underneath. On their last contract they led both the product strategy and the machine learning build for a driver behaviour product.
Looking forGoing permanent on purpose. They want an employer that will invest in them while they finish a part-time MSc in AI, and they have ruled out further contracting outright.
How they came acrossWhat they led with was the work that had a social angle to it, not the money. Contracts of 2 and 3 years at a stretch suggest clients keep hold of them.
Python, Node.js, React, FastAPI · TensorFlow, PyTorch, LangChain, LangGraph · AWS, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes
10 employers over 20 years across healthcare research, banking, travel, education and enterprise technology, in the UK and the Middle East, mostly on contract since 2013. Average tenure 2 years 3 months, longest stint 5 years 3 months.
Won't consider contract work at all, which closes off any day-rate conversion. They are also part-way through a part-time MSc, so evenings are spoken for.
Part-way through a part-time MSc in artificial intelligence, studied online.
MLOps rather than modelling, and they are clear that is deliberate. They deployed and monitored production machine learning for payment optimisation at a payments business handling millions of transactions a day, in Python and FastAPI on Kubernetes with Terraform and CloudFormation beneath it. Snowflake, Databricks, MLflow and Sagemaker across the pipeline, and they have owned the CI/CD and the observability as well as the deploys.
Looking forWants machine learning platform work, building the infrastructure data science teams run on rather than training models themselves. That is the direction they are pushing, not a fallback.
How they came acrossActively looking and engaged with it, and they answered the Python questions without hedging. Hosts a fintech running club in London, which tells you something about the energy.
Python, Rust, SQL, FastAPI · Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, AWS, Sagemaker · Snowflake, Databricks, MLflow
8 employers over 9 years, moving from data science and MLOps in clinical research and aerospace into banking and then payments. Average tenure 1 year 1 month, longest stint 2 years 3 months.
Their role went in a restructure after the business was acquired, so they are out of work and free now. Average tenure is just over a year across 8 employers.
Masters in engineering and management of manufacturing systems.
A distributed systems and infrastructure engineer who has moved into AI. Two years at an AI accelerator hardware company on AGI infrastructure, and before that technical lead on trading systems and SRE work on global payments infrastructure at ByteDance. Python, TypeScript and Go, gRPC and FastAPI, Kubernetes, Kafka and Terraform, with PyTorch and LangGraph on the AI side. Also a core developer on IBM's blockchain payments network.
Looking forThe hardware company turned towards semiconductor manufacturing, their role went 60% research, and then it dissolved for want of funding. They are in Taiwan on a personal project and plan to be back in London in a few months. Needs sponsorship, and told us work-life balance matters more to them than the top number.
How they came acrossRescues broken systems, by their account and our recruiter's. Bridges research people and engineers, wants to mentor, and left a research-heavy role because they wanted to build something a real person would use.
Python, TypeScript, Go · FastAPI, gRPC, Kafka, PostgreSQL · Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform · PyTorch, LangGraph
6 employers over 11 years across photonics, blockchain, payments, trading and AI hardware, spanning Asia and the UK. Average tenure 1 year 4 months, longest stint 2 years 1 month.
Needs visa sponsorship, is in Taiwan and a few months from returning, and has been out of work since February. Average tenure of 1 year 4 months is short for the level.
Masters in computer science from a globally ranked university.
Tell me which came closest and I recalibrate, then come back with 10 to 15 more inside 24 hours.
Show me the wider bank