Tom Booth

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Head of Data at Bridge Robotics · Recommendation systems

Bridge Robotics
London, UK · GMT (UTC+0)
10+ years experience
UCL
English
Hiring
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Overview

Based in London. I lead recommendation systems at Bridge Robotics. Taught SQL to 95 non-analysts. Before that: Monzo and Unilever. Most at home with PyTorch and embeddings. I volunteer with a food bank on weekends.

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  • Candidates for the role I'm hiring for
  • Second opinions on Spark decisions
  • Questions about recommendation systems
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Skills
embeddingsPyTorchPythonrecommender systemsSpark
HiringHiring for a role
closes in 3 months

Looking for a data analyst who has worked on PyTorch at scale

Role
Data analyst
Level
Senior
Type
Contract
Work mode
Remote within country
Compensation
$129k-$183k + equity
Team
Recommendations, 6 people
Start
This quarter
Must have
Strong SQL and statistics Turns analysis into decisions Good judgment about what not to build
Process
Two interviews and a paid trial day

Comp £87k-£162k. Four conversations, no take-home. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

London, UK · remote OKembeddingsrecommender systemspytorch
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Experience

  1. Head of Data
    Aug 2025 - Present
    Bridge Robotics · 1 yr 2 mo · Full-time · London, UK
    • Built the recommendations models now used in 12 product decisions a quarter.
    • Shipped a ranking change that increased conversion 2.2%.
    • Taught SQL to 30 non-analysts.
  2. Senior Data Scientist
    May 2022 - May 2025
    Monzo · 3 yr · Contract · London, UK
    • Taught SQL to 177 non-analysts.
    • Built the recommendations models now used in 10 product decisions a quarter.
  3. Data Analyst
    Nov 2020 - May 2022
    Unilever · 1 yr 6 mo · Full-time · London, UK
    • Wrote the metric definitions the leadership team reviews every week.
  4. Data Analyst
    Nov 2018 - Nov 2020
    Arm · 2 yr · Full-time · London, UK
    • Moved the homepage from rules to a learned ranker.
  5. Data Analyst
    Oct 2016 - Nov 2018
    Bloomberg · 2 yr 1 mo · Full-time · London, UK
    • Replaced 61 hand-built dashboards with one metrics layer people trust.
    • Moved the homepage from rules to a learned ranker.

Projects

Side project: a budgeting app
2025

Built with Spark and Python. 1921 people used it last year.

Conference talk: lessons from recommendations
2025

What went wrong and what worked while scaling recommendation systems.

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Education

  1. UCL
    BSc, Economics
    2010 - 2013

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