Alistair Baillie's Linkedin Analytics

- Business Ownership, sales I completed both sales and account growth at two Capital Markets (FX Foreign Exchange) startups that were successfully acquired in 2015 and 2019 respectively. Then in 2020 I set-up my own business with my co-founder, and won Fintech of the Year in 2021 and 2022. - Product & Delivery - 20 years experience Over 20 years experience in delivering client-facing solutions, from the management of managers and large teams in complex multi-national environments, to working solo in startups/ scaleups. I’ve both inherited teams and hired whole teams from scratch, always ensuring that we are a productive, innovative, and Agile/agile workplace. And achieved miracles on a tight budget. To do this I live and breathe two things: data and people. - Work at scale, or on new initiatives in small teams I’ve had big budgets and teams managing 50 staff via line managers, I’ve had sole responsibility of a $16M Credit Risk transformation, I’ve been Implementation Manager for a $120M FX program; However I consider my biggest achievement to be taking on a $6M pensions automation initiative and achieving 92% cost-savings by understanding in detail the regulatory and product needs and engaging patiently with internal and external stakeholders. I delivered it for only $500k. - AI, Natural Language, User Application product leader Building on my traditional software product experience of SaaS apps with excellent UX/UI, I have spent the past four years leading an AI-powered Martech, launched in 2022, www.shipshape.vc. This is a SaaS online/ digital offering underpinned by data and AI. Strong understanding of NLP models, use of commercial LLMs, in-house use of open source LLMs (Llama 2, t5), Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT), MLOps including building-out fine-tuning infra to reduce inference costs e.g. using Spot instances, semantic search, VectorDBs, embeddings. - Product & Engineering through and through - but can talk with real experience to all peers I started my career in New Product Development and marketing, and I’ve spent much of the last decade in commercial and client-engaging roles, so have proven ability to show to peers. Helps stakeholder engagement! And I'm not a fully-fledged software engineer, but I still enjoy keeping tech skills fresh so that I can see eye-to-eye with technical stakeholders.