About me
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 2023, Okra was acquired by Envision Pharma.
In 2021, I joined Babylon
Health as a Software Engineer. I was ensuring the high availability and
quality of medical data to improve the output of Babylon's AI models. I was
also working on a set of microservices to validate the safety of these
models. Once these models were considered safe - any healthcare environment
is extremely regulated! - I deployed these models into production, where they
would help improve the health of our patients.
In 2022, I joined Babylon's Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team, as a senior software engineer. My responsibilities ranged from being on-call 24/7 to respond to incidents, to maintaining Babylon's infrastructure. I also helped developers scale their applications and make sure they worked 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.
Selected Publications
- 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
You can access the full list of my publications here