Charles Copley
VP Product Engineering at Ancera
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolCharles Copley is a VP Product Engineering and cross-functional tech leader with 13 years of experience building and scaling teams across data science, machine learning, software engineering, and product in FinTech, HealthTech, and SaaS. He combines a rigorous research background—a D.Phil in Astrophysics and publications in NeurIPS, ACL, and BMJ Global Health—with hands-on product delivery, specializing in org design and roadmap execution that align technical vision to commercial outcomes. His career spans leadership roles from data science manager at Cedar to head of data science and now VP at Ancera, showing a consistent track record of maturing analytics into production systems. Known for a people-first leadership style, he pairs disciplined process with curiosity-driven innovation, often translating complex research into pragmatic product features. A less obvious strength is his deep systems and engineering roots from early project engineering and large-scale scientific projects, which inform his ability to manage high-velocity, technically complex teams.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc Hons Astrophysics and Space Science, B.Sc Hons Astrophysics and Space Science at University of Cape TownD.Phil (Ph.D) Astrophysics, D.Phil (Ph.D) Astrophysics at University of OxfordMatric (IEB), Matric (IEB) at MichaelhouseCalifornia Institute of TechnologyM.Sc Physics with Electronics, M.Sc Physics with Electronics at Rhodes University
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Github Skills (28)
retrieval-augmented-generation10
ai10
agentic-ai10
chatgpt9
probabilistic-programming9
variational-inference9
twitter9
large-language-models9
generative-ai9
react-flow9
bayesian9
bayesian-inference9
mcmc9
python8
messaging7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
chopley/servoCode
May 2013 - Mar 2017
Contributions:9 commits, 17 pushes in 3 years 11 months
chopley/avnSpectrometer
Aug 2014 - Sep 2015
Contributions:36 commits, 1 PR, 24 pushes in 1 year
spectrometeravn
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