About Synthesized

Gina is an International marketer with 17 years of experience and a passion for driving new technology adoption. Prior to Synthesized, she led the global product marketing strategy for Unbabel, a high-growth Machine Translation portuguese company and she held various Developer Evangelism and Engineering Program Management senior regional roles at Microsoft. She is a proud AIESEC alumni and is passionate about volunteering for humanitarian causes.

Ed is an experienced enterprise data software executive having worked for a number of tech companies such as GridGain, GigaSpaces, and Borland to establish their UK and EMEA sales presence. His focus is driving key strategic partnerships and customer success. His background and knowledge spans AI, distributed computing, middleware, and software development. His passion is helping companies build strategic partnerships with key partners and bringing innovative software products to wider markets.

Seva is an Engineering Lead with background around test automation and CI/CD, building full stack applications from scratch and driving the teams for different companies and customers including financial market, Google, Nike. He holds MSc in Applied Maths and Control Processes from the Saint Petersburg State University. He loves to share his knowledge and to try new things by means of writing blog posts, articles, speaking at the conferences and tweeting about engineering things. Participated as a program committee member in organizing the biggest conferences in Russia for 4+ years like Heiseinbug, Joker, JPoint. In spare time, he does teaching, podcasting and raises his daughter and a small doggy.

Ricardo has more than 15 years of experience in the SaaS B2B Product roles. He studied CS and then went on to graduate in cognitive neuroscience. He started his career in an AR company focusing on human-computer interaction. Throughout his career, he's helped product teams grow from 0 to 20+ people and enjoyed supporting people's growth into leadership roles and achieving their full potential. He helped more mature companies as well that grew from 100 to 1000 people and went from 5M to 100M ARR and close to 1B in valuation. For the last few years, he's helped organisations and teams understand why good products are only achieved when companies understand their users and market, so they know how to add value to current propositions and create new products that people pay for. Ricardo loves to listen to customers' pains and needs, involving them in the solutions he comes up with. He believes working together with business, design and development is key to achieving the best results. Besides his formal training, Ricardo is a very active member of both UX and Product Manager communities in Europe and owns certifications like the Norman Nielsen UX (NN group), several Product Design certifications from Interaction Design Foundation and has recently completed both Design Thinking Practitioner and Co-Creator certifications from IBM. Ricardo also gives talks about Product and UX and is the Creator of some training workshops on subjects like Design Sprints, Product Research and Usability Testing.

Simon contributes to the core technology of Synthesized and is responsible for some of the development pro fcesses of the ML team. Prior to joining Synthesized in 2019, he worked in the legal and medical industries as a NLP & Machine Learning engineer. He has an academic background in Statistical Thermodynamics and Computational Linguistics from the University of Cambridge.

Ton is an Engineer passionate about Machine Learning and AI. Before joining Synthesized, he worked for a challenger bank in the UK improving their decisioning process by exploiting their data, and prior to that, he obtained his MSc in Artificial Intelligence at the University of Edinburgh. Originally from Barcelona and proud supporter of their football team -on his own words “the best team in the world”-, you may find him running around Hampstead Heath or listening to some live music somewhere around London

Lourenço is an experienced visual designer based in sunny Lisbon, Portugal. He has a multidisciplinary approach to design stemming from his educational and professional background, and a demonstrated history of working within various fields ranging from branding and identity, marketing and communication, in both print and digital design, all within the most diverse sectors.

Morgan is a startup veteran with 7+ years experience in seed stage companies. She has held a number of positions including Implementation, Operations, Customer Success, Customer Support, and any other hat that needed to be worn at the time. Outside of work, Morgan is an avid reader and experienced runner.

Mark’s technical experience is diverse: MSc in Computer Science, working as a Machine Learning Researcher at Skoltech Institute and as a full stack engineer at multiple startups. He plays three musical instruments and loves to play board games with whoever would visit him in his place in Shoreditch.

Simon recently completed his MBA from the University of Cambridge. He previously worked with global retailers and brands to transform their digital experiences and bring their mobile offerings to market. Simon was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois. In his spare time he enjoys exploring cities, travel, keeping up with current affairs along with learning more about aviation and technology.

Rob has recently completed his PhD in High Energy Physics at Imperial College London, where he worked on developing AI algorithms to search for dark matter in the universe. Prior to his PhD, he briefly worked as a Data Scientist at MoneySuperMarket, extracting insights from large datasets to drive business revenue. As part of his PhD, he developed an object-oriented Python framework to process noisy sensor data and implemented signal processing algorithms for downstream analysis.

Andrey is a seasoned JavaScript software engineer with multiple years of experience and worked in several companies including big IT corporations and dynamic startups. He has a solid technical background from graduating Bauman Moscow University and University of Liege with Master’s Degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Ship Design.

Bogdan is passionate about Machine Learning, AI and Software Engineering. Prior he has worked on research projects, focused on Bayesian Learning and Explainability. Coming from Romania, he is an expert in J.R.R. Tolkien's Lore and boardgames, as well as a hardware and video-game enthusiast.

Aahil is a 3rd year Computing student at Imperial interested in Machine Learning and Systems. is passionate about Machine Learning and Systems. He has previously worked as a software engineer and has experience across a range of frontend and backend technologies.

Jamie is a Machine Learning Engineer with a background in Maths and Statistics. He previously worked at Speechmatics in Cambridge where he worked in the research team on Representation Learning for Speech. Prior to that he did his masters at UCL and Undergraduate in Maths at Cambridge. Outside of that he's a keen squash player and a serial Glastonbury attender (when there's not a pandemic on).

The crooked path didn't bring Lada to engineering straight away :) While she earned her degree in the Civil Defence Academy in Moscow, soon she realised her passion is #engineering. Besides her career in frontend development, she taught at the university and was a mentor at an online education school. Lada was a speaker at conferences such as HolyJS, ITdays, Konn and she drives an FE community in Eastern Europe.

Akanksha has 8 years of extensive experience in software development at Microsoft, Amazon, Oracle and recently finished her masters in Data Science in the University of San Francisco! During her masters she was working as a ML Research intern in a medical centre.