Lawrence Neale

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I'm a Senior AI/ML and full-stack software engineer with 8+ years delivering production-grade AI systems, SaaS platforms, and automation infrastructure for startups and growth-stage companies.

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I’m a Senior AI/ML and full-stack software engineer with 8+ years delivering production-grade AI systems, SaaS platforms, and automation infrastructure for startups and growth-stage companies. I’ve supported early-stage AI and SaaS ventures as the technical lead—architecting scalable systems, making high-stakes engineering decisions, and shipping at startup speed. I founded Acta 201, an AI-driven lead generation platform scaled from £0 to £100k ARR. I specialize in multi-agent AI systems, RAG pipelines, n8n automation, full-stack SaaS development, and end-to-end lead generation tooling.

I’m passionate about building reliable AI systems, mentoring engineers, and delivering value quickly through data-driven iteration.

  • 11 years' experience
  • Joined May 2026

Industry experience

  • Software & Internet
  • Healthcare
  • Manufacturing
  • Professional Services

Work experience

Technical Co-Founder & CTO · Illumia VenturesFeb 2025 – Present · 1 yr 10 mos

Led the architecture and delivery of a large-scale GenAI clinical platform, multi-tenant and event-driven microservices on AWS, supporting 200+ concurrent voice and text AI sessions. Built a real-time voice AI pipeline converting clinical conversations into structured medical entities with ~1s latency and ~97% extraction accuracy, enabling automated documentation workflows. Designed and deployed production RAG systems using LangChain and vector databases (Pinecone/FAISS), achieving 0.9 retrieval precision on patient-history summation. Developed a modular LLM orchestration layer separating retrieval, prompt execution, and inference services for safer prompts and rapid feature delivery. Implemented AI reliability strategies (retrieval validation, structured output enforcement, evaluation feedback loops) to reduce model inconsistency in clinical outputs. Integrated GraphQL APIs and WebSocket streaming with React interfaces for live monitoring and real-time summaries, and reduced frontend

Fullstack AI & Data Engineer · Automated AI Workflows Ltd.Mar 2018 – Feb 2025 · 7 yrs

Built real-time analytics platforms, ML inference systems, and data engineering infrastructure. Operated streaming ingestion platforms processing 3,000+ events/second using Kafka, AWS Kinesis, and Azure Event Hubs. Maintained a centralized PostgreSQL data warehouse with Redis caching, achieving ~200ms p95 analytical query latency. Developed React + D3.js analytics dashboards enabling 50+ stakeholders to visualize clinical and operational insights in real time. Applied Bayesian optimization models improving clinical trial site selection efficiency by ~18%. Integrated ML inference services into analytics systems using containerized FastAPI deployments on AWS ECS and Azure AKS. Built predictive models for radiological analysis and equipment failure forecasting, reducing operational downtime by ~28%.

Founder & Lead Engineer · Acta 201Oct 2015 – Present · 11 yrs 2 mos

Founded and engineered an AI-driven lead generation and customer acquisition platform, growing from £0 to £100k ARR. Built a 59-node production n8n OSINT enrichment pipeline integrating 12 APIs in parallel (LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, Whois, B2B data enrichment, email verification) to cut manual research time from 8+ hours to under 15 minutes per subject. Created an AI Intelligence Platform with 11 parallel data-gathering agents and a Next.js dashboard showing live agent status, risk-rated reports, and structured intelligence briefs for security agencies and B2B sales teams. Implemented a four-module automated lead generation pipeline (Maps scraping → Tavily AI research → ICP scoring → AnyMailFinder CEO email discovery) and an outbound engine with ICP-matched multi-touch sequences (email + LinkedIn) delivering higher reply rates and faster pipeline velocity. Deployed a multi-agent Telegram AI system with 8 specialized sub-agents and built a customer retention automatio

Education

MBA (Business Administration & Management) · Oneday Liberty2023 – 2025
BSc (Computer Science) · University of Staffordshire2002 – 2005

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