Machine Learning Engineer • Poole
Jacob R. Stone
Teaching machines to learn. Still working on myself.
I'm a Machine Learning Engineer at Faculty, working on bespoke applied AI systems for some of the UKs biggest companies. Before that, I spent 18 months as a backend engineer building an AI agent management platform at a Conversational AI startup.
I'm currently most interested in SOTA Computer Vision, SOTA Image Augmentation Pipelines and Workflow Orchestration.
I'm an avid gamer, when I can find the time for it, I play: soulslikes, roguelikes, Pokémon nuzlockes and Dota 2.
Present
Building and deploying production ML/CV systems across the full stack — data annotation pipelines, model fine-tuning, lifecycle management, and deployment to customer environments.
Nov 2025
Honed my engineering capability, with a focus on testing and quality code (both unit and E2E testing). Breaking work up into smaller, more manageable PRs to keep the review process lean and agile.
Aug 2023
Initiated and built the first version of what became a flagship product feature — a Semantic Classifier using OpenAI's API to dynamically match user utterances to intents in our conversation engine. First project at the company, in a stack I was new to. Leveraged my skill in OOP and prior PHP experience from university to excel here.