Claire Stone

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Director of Engineering at Tallis Networks · ML infrastructure · PyTorch, Ray

Tallis Networks
Birmingham, UK · GMT (UTC+0)
14+ years experience
University of Leeds
English
Hiring
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Overview

Currently at Tallis Networks, where I lead ML infrastructure with a team of 47. Led the migration of 17 services to feature stores. Before that: Bloomberg and Deloitte. Most at home with CUDA and Kubeflow. Swimming before work keeps me sane.

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  • Questions about ML infrastructure
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  • Requests to fix your code for free

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Skills
PythonPyTorchKubeflowCUDAfeature storesRay
HiringHiring for a role
closes in 3 months

Looking for an sre who has worked on feature stores at scale

Role
Sre
Level
Mid
Type
Contract
Work mode
On-site
Compensation
$146k-$214k + equity
Team
ML platform, 14 people
Start
This quarter
Must have
Production experience with PyTorch Production experience with Python Clear written communication
Process
3 conversations, no take-home

Comp £76k-£142k. One technical chat and a paid trial day. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

Birmingham, UKkubeflowcudaray
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Experience

  1. Director of Engineering
    Feb 2025 - Present
    Tallis Networks · 1 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Birmingham, UK
    • Brought on-call pages for ML platform down from 20 a week to 3.
    • Mentored 13 engineers through their first promotion.
    • Grew the ML platform team from 5 to 26 engineers.
  2. Senior Engineering Manager
    Jul 2022 - Feb 2025
    Bloomberg · 2 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Birmingham, UK
    • Led the migration of 53 services to Ray.
    • Moved 94% of ML platform traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  3. ML Engineer
    Dec 2018 - Jul 2022
    Deloitte · 3 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Birmingham, UK
    • Replaced 98 hand-built dashboards with one metrics layer people trust.
  4. Senior Engineering Manager
    Jun 2015 - Dec 2018
    Bloomberg · 3 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Birmingham, UK
    • Brought on-call pages for ML platform down from 24 a week to 3.
    • Wrote the Kubeflow service that now handles 81 million requests a day.
  5. ML Engineer
    Sep 2012 - Jun 2015
    Shell · 2 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Birmingham, UK
    • Taught SQL to 197 non-analysts.

Projects

Write-up: ML infrastructure in practice
2025

A long-form guide to ML infrastructure for people starting out.

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Education

  1. University of Leeds
    BSc, Computer Science
    1998 - 2001

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