BuildingAI systems & product engineering

Portfolio / Applied AI / Product Engineering

DanielFlockhart

AI and software engineer building applied machine-learning systems, production web apps and ambitious technical products. At its core, this is about turning ambiguous technical problems into working systems people can actually use.

1st

BSc Artificial Intelligence & Computer Science

CTO

Co-founded and built a launched travel-tech platform

AI

Machine learning, product engineering & security-minded systems

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Daniel Flockhart
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Experience

Experience

Co-founder, CTO & Lead Software Engineer

Matched Stay

July 2023 — June 2026

Led technical development, product design and deployment of a travel-tech platform while supporting client acquisition, investor conversations and release planning.

StartupFull-stackProduct

Digital Chemistry Research Intern

University of Birmingham

Jun 2023 — Oct 2023

Experimented with machine-learning architectures for digital chemistry and communicated research findings to technical domain experts.

ResearchComputer VisionAutoencoders

Private GCSE Maths Tutor

Self-employed

2021 — 2022

Produced personalised lessons for a GCSE maths student, adapting teaching strategies to the learner's needs and earning positive client feedback.

TeachingMathsCommunicationClient work

Skills

Technical skills

AI & Machine Learning

Applied AI systems across research pipelines, LLM workflows, reinforcement learning, computer vision and model evaluation.

PythonOpenAI APIPyTorchTensorFlowScikit-learnChemBERTaRDKitLLMSupervised LearningUnsupervised LearningReinforcement LearningNeural Network ArchitecturesDeep LearningModel EvaluationFeature EngineeringData AugmentationComputer VisionLLM Data LabellingAgentic Workflows

Software Engineering

Full-stack product development from frontend interfaces through backend APIs, data models, deployment and maintenance.

TypeScriptJavaScriptJavaC#ReactNext.jsReact NativeNode.jsFlaskTailwind CSSAPIsWeb App DevelopmentMobile App DevelopmentDatabase DesignTestingSystem Architecture

Cloud, Data & Infrastructure

Practical delivery experience with hosted apps, server-side integrations, data storage and production-oriented engineering habits.

FirebaseFirestoreGoogle CloudCloud FunctionsAuthenticationCI/CDMonitoringDeployment

Security & OSINT

Security-minded development with knowledge of web attack surfaces, operational risk, public-source investigation and defensive design.

Cyber SecurityOSINTWeb SecurityLinuxNetworking

Product, Research & Communication

Turning ambiguous requirements into usable systems through research, stakeholder work, prototyping and clear product judgement.

Product DesignUI/UX DesignInterface DesignDesign SystemsGame DesignUnityBlenderTechnical WritingResearch CommunicationStartup OperationsUser FlowsRapid Prototyping