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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.…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.

Francis Sloan

AI Engineer, Data Engineer, Software Engineer, +2

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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.…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.

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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.

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Artificial Intelligence Engineer at AMT

January 1, 2025 - Present

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.

Chef Owner at Carter's London

April 1, 2024 - December 1, 2024

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.

Data Engineer at The Guardian

October 1, 2021 - September 1, 2023

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.

Senior Data Engineer / Data Engineer at Panaseer

August 1, 2019 - September 1, 2021

Built and managed high-volume data pipelines using Spark and Hadoop. Developed a new Scala application to support the data platform. Led a team of developers with daily check-ins, sprint planning, and ad-hoc training, translating business requirements into deliverable tasks.

Senior Software Engineer / Team Lead at Alfa Financial Software

January 1, 2014 - July 1, 2019

Led a team designing and building a bespoke ETL application delivering real-time and end-of-day reporting over the core product. Served as Agile team lead for six people with management, supervision, mentoring, and career-development responsibilities.