Francis Sloan
AI and data engineer with 10+ years of experience delivering dependable software and large-scale data platforms across multiple industries, and 4+ years focused on cloud infrastructure (GCP and AWS).
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AI and data engineer with 10+ years of experience delivering dependable software and large-scale data platforms across multiple industries, and 4+ years focused on cloud infrastructure (GCP and AWS). Comfortable leading teams and translating business needs into shipped products.
Currently building production AI agents at AMT, with a focus on agent orchestration, reliability/performance monitoring, hallucination prevention, and scalable negotiation workflows. Previously led GCP-based data lake and ETL pipelines at The Guardian and built high-volume Spark/Hadoop pipelines and team delivery at Panaseer.
- 12 years' experience
- Joined July 2026
Industry experience
- Software & Internet
- Media & Entertainment
- Financial Services
- Education
- Professional Services
Work experience· 5 roles
Build production AI agents that automate creator-marketing workflows including creator discovery, personalised outreach, and negotiation. Own performance, optimisation and alerting for live agents, driving continuous improvements in reliability and output quality. Designed and implemented hallucination-prevention safeguards to keep outputs accurate and trustworthy in production. Built deterministic escalation logic to enable robust, agent-led negotiations with creators at scale.
Founded and ran a food business based in a South London pub, including launch and day-to-day operations. Built and led a small team through operational planning, customer-facing service, and consistent daily execution.
Managed GCP cloud infrastructure underpinning The Guardian's data lake. Built dbt and Spark models for the ETL pipeline, orchestrated with Airflow. Led an in-depth research project covering all data capture from website usage.
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