At heart I am a technologist and an entrepreneur. I love the internet, the web, building products, and am interested in harnessing technology to change behaviour. I am currently the Chief Technology Officer at State. I have a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Southampton supervised by Prof. Nigel Shadbolt. After leaving academia I have been active in the London Startup scene; spending 3 years as a developer at Garlik seeing the project through to exit, 2.5 years at PeerIndex where as CTO I helped build a cutting edge big data platform, before joining State. I have also been involved in the W3C over the years. I was on the RDF Working Group, and I was the editor of Social Web Incubator Group's final report.

CTO @ Building the world's opinion network. From April 2014 to Present (1 year 7 months) London, United KingdomChief Technology Officer @ I head up the Engineering team at PeerIndex. I am responsible for PeerIndex's Big Data stack which is used to power our API and various applications. We currently run all of our services out of Amazon AWS making heavy use of EMR, DynamoDB, S3, HIVE, EC2, and Storm in production. I have been innovating in London startups since 2008. From April 2013 to April 2014 (1 year 1 month) LondonHead of Research Engineering @ I built and designed PeerIndex's big data stack on Amazon's AWS. From December 2011 to April 2013 (1 year 5 months) London, United KingdomSenior Research Engineer @ I work on developing our core Semantic Web technologies at Garlik. I also keep track and undertaken research looking online privacy and the Semantic Web Technology stack. I have been doing a bit of perl, php, java, c, and js recently. From August 2008 to December 2011 (3 years 5 months) PhD Student @ From October 2004 to August 2008 (3 years 11 months) PhD Student @ From 2004 to 2007 (3 years) MSc Artificial Intelligence @ From October 2003 to October 2004 (1 year 1 month)

Phd, Computer Science @ University of Southampton From 2005 to 2009 MSc, Artificial Intelligence @ The University of Edinburgh From 2002 to 2003 Mischa Tuffield is skilled in: Semantic Web, SPARQL, RDF, Artificial Intelligence, Java, Hadoop, Perl, OWL, Information Extraction, Machine Learning, EMR, AWS, Distributed Systems, Ontologies, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Amazon EC2, Amazon Web Services..., Algorithms, JavaScript, PHP, Big Data, Web Development