Daoud Clarke
Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Cint
Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDaoud Clarke is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer with 14 years of industry experience and a PhD in NLP, combining deep academic grounding with a strong track record of productionising ML systems at organisations such as Tesco, News UK and Cint. He specialises in NLP, statistical modelling and deep learning—designing end-to-end solutions from research and feature engineering through to deployment and metric optimisation for business impact. As founder of the open-source, non-profit search engine Mwmbl (indexed over 500M pages and 4,000 users), he brings hands-on systems and back-end development experience in addition to ML expertise. At Cint he has built yield-management models and practical LLM tools to assess survey feasibility, demonstrating a focus on revenue-linked ML products. He has published influential work on semantics, sentiment and document classification (300+ citations) and enjoys pushing research ideas into resilient production services. Based in Swansea, he is actively expanding his deep learning knowledge while seeking contract roles where he can deliver measurable value.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Physics, BSc Physics at Imperial College LondonDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Informatics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Informatics at University of Sussex
Github Skills (16)
crawler10
data-structures10
search-engine10
better-sqlite310
sqlite10
web-crawler10
webscraper10
webscraping10
python10
data-structure10
crawling10
api-design9
integrations9
api9
apim9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
mwmbl/mwmbl
Mar 2021 - Jan 2023
An open source, non-profit web search engine
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 reviews, 315 commits, 288 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Daoud primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the web search engine project. They implemented core features such as index creation, web crawling, and the design of data structures to efficiently store and retrieve search terms. Their work involved the use of Python and the sqlite3 database system. The user also added a timeout to the web request function to improve the resilience of the crawler.
search-enginenon-profit
mwmbl/crawler-extension
Jan 2022 - Jan 2023
A browser extension that can be installed by volunteers to participate in mwmbl distributed crawling.
Contributions:3 reviews, 111 commits, 44 PRs in 1 year
browser-extensioncrawling
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