Ben Burtenshaw — Head of Design
I contribute to the developer advocacy team by supporting the community in building AI models and applications. I help develop open-source learning communities and educational AI courses, including initiatives like the MCP Course and the LLM Course.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Machine Learning Educator and Advocate in the AI and Data Science industry.
Location: Antwerp, Flemish Region, Belgium
Experience: 13 yrs 5 mos
Skills
- Natural Language Processing (nlp)
- Machine Learning
- Mlops
- Data Engineering
- Data Quality
- University Teaching
- Project Management
- Data Governance
- Python (programming Language)
- Communication
Career Highlights
- Expert in developing educational AI courses.
- Strong background in Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning.
- Proven track record in community engagement and advocacy.
Work Experience
Hugging Face
Community Education (11 mos)
Machine Learning Advocacy Engineer (1 yr 2 mos)
Machine Learning Engineer (9 mos)
Uplimit
Instructor for Synthetic Datasets (4 mos)
Instructor for Finetuning Open source LLMs (10 mos)
Instructor for Productizing Open Source LLMs (6 mos)
Argilla
Machine Learning Engineer (11 mos)
Faktion.ai
Senior Machine Learning Engineer (1 yr 11 mos)
University of Groningen
Lecturer (9 mos)
uman
NLP Engineer (9 mos)
University of Antwerp
Course Coordinator : Python Programming Bootcamp (1 yr 8 mos)
Research Foundation Flanders - FWO
NLP Researcher (4 yrs 1 mo)
Self-employed
Freelance Software Engineer (5 yrs 2 mos)
Education
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at University of Antwerp
Masters of Research - Mres at University of Brighton
Master's degree at ArtEZ University of the Arts
Bachelor's degree at Goldsmiths, University of London