Charlie Dickens
Senior AI Engineer at 9fin
United Kingdom
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Top SchoolCharlie Dickens is a Senior AI Engineer in the UK with nine years of experience bridging research-grade algorithms and production AI systems. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from Warwick and has a track record of turning theoretical advances in randomized algorithms and privacy-preserving analytics into practical products and patents. Charlie led research at Yahoo (including a NeurIPS paper and a granted patent), co-founded a computer-vision startup that improved training efficiency and accuracy, and now architects rigorous evaluation and auditing frameworks for AI in finance at 9fin. He combines deep mathematical grounding with hands-on engineering—optimizing data efficiency, reducing training time, and quantifying factual correctness and reliability in agentic workflows. A serial founder and former Entrepreneur First resident, he brings both product intuition and a focus on safe, deterministic AI behaviour. An understated strength is his ability to quantify and operationalize abstract metrics, turning academic insights into measurable system guarantees.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
MSci, Mathematics, MSci, Mathematics at University of BirminghamDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science at University of Warwick
English
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Github Skills (19)
streaming-algorithms10
sketch10
jekyll9
cpp9
monitoring7
time-series7
pthreads6
prometheus6
linux6
java6
timeseries-database5
graphing4
pybind113
reproducible-research3
algorithms3
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
c-dickens/sketching_optimisation
Apr 2019 - Feb 2020
Contributions:69 commits, 66 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
c-dickens/c-dickens.github.io
Jul 2022 - Aug 2025
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Contributions:1 PR, 39 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 1 month
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