I am Tom Reader, and at Alver Valley Software Limited I offer consulting and contracting in the fields of Computer Vision, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, including OpenCV, and deep learning.
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I have a 2:1(Hons) Degree in Computer Science, which focussed in the final year on AI, including neural networks, genetic algorithms, machine learning and natural language processing. I have over 30 years’ commercial programming experience. My professional background is in programming, all the way back to the start of my career in the early ’90s, and like many geeks of my era, the programming goes back much further than that.
I offer – on a contract basis – consulting and programming work in the fields of Computer Vision and Machine Learning. I write code primarily in C++ and Python.
In the past few years I have worked with a many clients, with work ranging from a couple of hours’ advice, through to long-term projects spanning 8+ years and still ongoing. I have provided a number of practical, usable, real-world solutions which have gone live, some with large household name companies as part of consumer-facing projects, as well as helping with research and experimentation in a more theoretical way on other projects. I have worked with many startups, and several multi-national companies.
I work almost exclusively from home (South coast of England), where I have my own development platform, primarily Linux-based. I am fully used to remote working with all the normal tools: Slack, Jira, Git, etc. I am very conscious of client confidentiality – many of my clients are start-ups or other companies with a new idea, and it’s important to keep it strictly under wraps for the normal commercial reasons and in some cases to allow patents to be granted. I’m used to operating under Non-Disclosure Agreements, and I believe my network to be a secure environment (I am Cyber Essentials certified).
I am available as a contractor to work on computer vision (OpenCV, scikit-image, PyTorch, Yolo, MobileNet, ResNet, etc) and Machine Learning, including Neural Networks, Genetic Algorithms and other Artificial Intelligence projects. Please contact me to discuss your project – email tom@alvervalleysoftware.com.