Toby Drane
AI Engineer at Granola
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolToby Drane is an AI engineer with eight years’ experience building production-grade ML and data infrastructure, currently developing Granola after serving as founding engineer at Atla (YC23). He led Data & AI engineering at 10 Downing Street, delivering analytics infrastructure and advanced models used by the Prime Minister’s office and driving innovation through projects like rAPId. His background blends academic rigour from an MSc in Data Science & Machine Learning at UCL with hands-on research in Bayesian ML for insurance claim classification. Comfortable at the intersection of research and production, Toby has a track record of turning high-stakes government and startup problems into scalable, auditable systems. He brings a pragmatic focus on helpful, honest, and safe AI—an emphasis reflected in his work on evaluation models and AGI-aligned tooling.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Keele UniversityUniversity College London
Stackoverflow
33reputation
5kreached
2answers
7questions
Github Skills (36)
pytorch9
python9
natural-language-processing9
audio9
nlp9
speech-recognition8
transformer8
deep-learning8
aws8
multimodal8
machine-learning8
llm8
machine-learning-models7
transformers7
terraform7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
no10ds/DEPRECATED-rapid-infrastructure
Nov 2022 - Mar 2023
The Infrastructure for Project rAPId
Contributions:8 releases, 13 reviews, 76 commits in 4 months
rapidinfrastructureterraformaws
TobyDrane/Personal-Site
Aug 2020 - Jan 2026
Contributions:20 PRs, 117 pushes, 36 branches in 5 years 5 months
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