Louis Maddox
Data Scientist
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolLouis Maddox is a data scientist based in London with 12 years of technical experience, currently helping independent musicians at Beatchain by building scalable streaming analytics, fraud detection, and multimedia backend integrations. He blends production serverless architectures (AWS Lambda, BigQuery) with modern ML and data tooling (Polars, PyTorch, Pydantic, OpenAI and Meta APIs) to deliver reliable, high-throughput services. Earlier work as an open-source contributor in the PyData ecosystem (scikit-image, dask) and technical documentation improvements for the widely used Sphinx project reflect a commitment to reproducibility and developer ergonomics. At BenevolentAI he developed an in-house Python statistical modelling library for drug discovery, showing a rare mix of domain biology and practical ML engineering. Colleagues describe him as curious and interdisciplinary—comfortable moving between low-level bioinformatics scripts and large-scale production pipelines to create measurable social impact for creators.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Biochemistry, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Biochemistry at The University of Manchester6 grade A A levels, 13 grade A* GCSEs, 6 grade A A levels, 13 grade A* GCSEs at The Liverpool Blue Coat School
English, Spanish, French, Latin
Stackoverflow
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knitr
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python
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markdown
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Github Skills (16)
documentation10
restructuredtext10
sphinx10
python9
markdown9
rmarkdown9
knitr9
httr6
xlrd6
jq6
linux6
javascript6
qt6
r6
sympy6
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
sphinx-doc/sphinx
Jul 2021 - Jul 2021
The Sphinx documentation generator
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:2 reviews, 35 commits, 1 PR in 5 days
Contributions summary:Louis primarily focused on improving the documentation of the Sphinx project. Their commits involved enhancing docstrings across various modules, including `sphinx.application`, `sphinx.config`, `sphinx.io`, `sphinx.parsers`, `sphinx.project`, `sphinx.registry`, and others. These changes involved refining existing documentation, adding more detail, and ensuring consistency in formatting, ultimately contributing to a more informative and accessible documentation set for Sphinx users.
documentation-generatorpythondocumentation-toolsphinxmarkdown
lmmx/fugit
Dec 2023 - Apr 2026
Git diff handling in Python
Contributions:14 PRs, 92 pushes, 24 branches in 2 years 4 months
git-diffpython
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