Freddy Heppell
PhD Candidate
Sheffield, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorFreddy Heppell is a versatile technician and researcher based in Sheffield with 13 years' experience delivering live events, lighting, staging and AV operations alongside research in NLP and social media disinformation. Currently Senior Technician at Legends Global and Event Duty Manager at Sheffield Students' Union, he combines hands-on stage management and technical leadership for club nights, gigs and large-scale venues like Sheffield City Hall. His academic work includes a PhD-focused profile and a recent Research Associate role in machine learning and NLP, bridging production-grade software engineering with applied research. Known for rigging, lighting design and live video programming, he also brings backend development experience from a services role at Capital One, enabling a rare mix of live-event craft and software competence. Colleagues see him as calm under pressure and resourceful—equally comfortable orchestrating a headline stage changeover or designing reproducible research pipelines.
13 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
286reputation
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Github Skills (200)
sitemap-xml10
topic-modeling10
nlp10
sentence-embeddings10
text-classification10
named-entity-recognition10
css10
bert10
python10
cython10
robots-txt10
machine-learning10
spacy10
minecraft10
sitemap10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
freddyheppell/freddyheppell.com
Mar 2020 - Apr 2021
The code that powers my website
Contributions:43 PRs, 104 pushes, 45 branches in 1 year
javascriptpowers
projectcitybuild/s3backup
Jul 2021 - Jun 2023
Spigot plugin to schedule backups and upload to S3
Contributions:1 release, 14 PRs, 25 pushes in 1 year 11 months
spigot
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