Ryan Lamb

I’m Ryan, CTO at The Really Great Teacher Company, where I work across tech, product, recruitment and operations.

I hold a MSc in Physics and Engineering in Medicine from University College London and am a Chartered Global Management Accountant (ACMA, CGMA).

I’m interested in data science, data engineering, operational improvement, automation and getting stuck into creative work that produces immediate results.

I live in Leeds, UK.

EXPERIENCE

I’ve worked as a:

Business consultant at Altius (acquired by Avanade), working with multinational FTSE100 clients to improve operational efficiency and supporting the data science team on project development and delivery.
Management consultant at KPMG, advising public sector clients on operational transformation, data analytics and data science.
Medical physicist in radiation oncology, diagnostic radiology and nuclear medicine.

SIDE PROJECTS

In my spare time I enjoy developing solutions that focus on alleviating an immediate pain-point, and can be presented in a simple and intuitive interface to the end-user. Some example public projects and walkthroughs that I’ve done:

Using machine learning to predict sport scores. Predicting the success of rugby teams at the Rugby World Cup. Article has over 10,000 views.
An end-to-end machine learning project with Python Pandas, Keras, Flask, Docker and Heroku. A high-level overview of the key steps to go from raw data to a live deployed machine learning app. Article has over 44,000 views.
A data engineering project with Prefect, Docker, Terraform, Google CloudRun, BigQuery and Streamlit. Uses UK Open Bus Data to calculate late buses in real-time for any selected region.
Created an automated SaaS for instant passport appointment alerts (no longer running). Built with minimal running costs (<£5 per month) and received first paying customers within first two weeks.
Used machine learning (Tensorflow) to automatically crop headshot images relative to face location. Packaged as desktop app, removed the need for manual image cropping and increased output by factor 8x.
Created a video editing app that automatically appends intro and outro clips to video files in bulk, reducing human effort by 75%.
Created a payroll validation and invoice generation app that can automatically generate 100s of bespoke invoices using only an Excel file as input.