Ella Murphy

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Director of Data Science, Bank Central Asia - transformers · evaluation · information retrieval

Bank Central Asia
Melbourne, Australia · AEST (UTC+10)
11+ years experience
Bandung Institute of Technology
English
AdvisingCo-founder
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Overview

Based in Melbourne. I lead NLP at Bank Central Asia. Replaced 25 hand-built dashboards with one metrics layer people trust. Taught SQL to 40 non-analysts. Before that: Petronas and REA Group. Swimming before work keeps me sane.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Advice on NLP
  • People who want to build this with me
  • Speaking or podcast invitations
  • Working sessions on information retrieval
  • Thoughtful intros to people in my field
Please don't message about
  • Agency or outsourcing pitches
  • Survey or panel invitations
  • Crypto token projects

Replies on weekday evenings

Skills
Pythonevaluationinformation retrievaltransformersBayesian statistics
AdvisingOpen to advising
closes in 3 months

Office hours for early-stage teams: NLP and Bayesian statistics

Topics
NLP, Python, information retrieval
Format
Formal advisor role
Terms
Free for early founders
Capacity
A few async reviews a month
Best for
First-time founders

13 years of NLP. Can review plans, decks and hiring loops.

Melbourne, Australia · remote OKbayesian statisticspythonevaluation
Open
Co-founderLooking for a co-founder
closes in 3 months

Looking for a commercial co-founder for warehouse robotics for pharmacies

The idea
Warehouse robotics for pharmacies
Stage
Customer interviews
I bring
4 years in NLP
Looking for
Commercial co-founder who has sold to enterprises
Commitment
Full-time after funding
Location
Melbourne or remote

I bring 13 years of NLP (currently Bank Central Asia). Ideally you've built ML systems in production. Have a working prototype and design partners.

Melbourne, Australiabayesian statisticstransformersinformation retrieval
Open

Experience

  1. Director of Data Science
    Aug 2025 - Present
    Bank Central Asia · 1 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Melbourne, Australia
    • Wrote the metric definitions the leadership team reviews every week.
    • Taught SQL to 70 non-analysts.
  2. Data Scientist
    Jan 2022 - Aug 2025
    Petronas · 3 yr 7 mo · Contract · Melbourne, Australia
    • Taught SQL to 98 non-analysts.
  3. Data Analyst
    Jan 2019 - Jan 2022
    REA Group · 3 yr · Full-time · Melbourne, Australia
    • Wrote the metric definitions the leadership team reviews every week.
    • Taught SQL to 51 non-analysts.
  4. Data Analyst
    Oct 2017 - Jan 2019
    Microsoft · 1 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Melbourne, Australia
    • Taught SQL to 49 non-analysts.
  5. Data Analyst
    Sep 2015 - Oct 2017
    Amazon · 2 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Melbourne, Australia
    • Wrote the metric definitions the leadership team reviews every week.
    • Taught SQL to 57 non-analysts.

Projects

Side project: a reading list app
2025

Built with Bayesian statistics and information retrieval. 3274 people used it last year.

NLP benchmark
2022

Reproducible benchmarks comparing information retrieval and Bayesian statistics on real workloads.

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Education

  1. Bandung Institute of Technology
    BEng, Mathematics
    2008 - 2012

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