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After obtaining my PhD in 2016, I moved to Glasgow to join the group of Prof. Lee Cronin as a postdoctoral research associate. I was part of the "reactionware" team, which aims to digitize organic chemistry through, for example, 3D printed reactors.
In 2018, I decided to leave academia to join Okra Technologies, a dynamic healthcare start-up, as a data engineer. There, I built analytics engines for healthcare companies. My main responsibilities were the development of backend services and the development of Okra's data lake.
In 2021, I joined Babylon
Health as a Software Engineer. I'm ensuring the high availability and
quality of medical data to improve the output of Babylon's AI models. I'm
also working on a set of microservices to validate the safety of these
models. Once these models are considered safe - any healthcare environment
is extremely regulated! - I deploy these models in production, where they
will help improve the health of our patients.
More recently, I joined the Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team, as a
senior software engineer. My responsibilities range from being on-call 24h a
day to respond to incidents to maintaining Babylon's infrastructure. I also
help developers scale their applications and make sure they work reliably
in production.
In 2023, I left the healthcare field behind to join the Telco world: I joined Virgin Media O2. I'm still a software engineer, and I'm now leading a small team tasked with creating a "fault platform". This platform aims to detect and remediate faults on VMO2's network.
- Automatic Generation of 3D Printed Reactionware for Chemical Synthesis Digitization using ChemSCAD W. Hou, A. Bubliauskas, P. J. Kitson, JP. Francoia, H. Powell-Davies, JM Parrilla Gutierrez, P. Frei, J.S Manzano and L. Cronin, ACS Cent. Sci., 2020, DOI: 10.1021/acscentsci.0c01354 - open access
- Digitization of multistep organic synthesis in reactionware for on-demand
pharmaceuticals
P. J. Kitson, G. Marie, J.-P. Francoia, S. S. Zalesskiy, R. C. Sigerson, J. S. Mathieson and L. Cronin Science, 2018, 359, 314
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Uc76tzNmtM&feature=youtu.be
- ChemBrows: An Open-Source Application Software To Keep Up to Date with the Current Literature
J.-P. Francoia and L. Vial, J. Chem. Educ, 2016, 93, 1137 - open access
Website: github.com/chembrows/ChemBrows
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