Co-Founder & CTO
appa · London
I am building Appa, an AI-powered compliance engine that completely automates property planning applications. We are cutting through archaic UK bureaucracy to save homeowners and developers immense time and capital.
Portfolio
Anthony Bennett
Senior Engineer & Technical Lead · London, UK
I build dependable systems for research, finance, and operations; balancing careful engineering with pragmatic delivery.
An experienced, detail-aware computer scientist combining strong project management, leadership, and communication with hands-on programming. I am comfortable owning architecture through deployment, collaborating with stakeholders, and keeping complex codebases maintainable.
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Skills
A practical mix of languages, frameworks, and domains I use regularly.
- Python
- AI/ML
- TypeScript
- C/C++
- C#
- Java/Kotlin
- PHP
- SQL
- React
- FastAPI
- Django
- Rust
- Tauri
- Pascal
Language-agnostic: prefer to rapidly build in TypeScript and Python, yet able to pick up new stacks quickly whenever a problem calls for it.
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Experience
Roles where I have owned delivery, mentored others, and stayed close to the code.
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Technical Lead
Compu-J Ltd. · London
Lead developer for bespoke enterprise AI and data processing solutions. I built end-to-end proprietary tooling for financial analysis and market research, optimizing internal workflows for an international client portfolio. Managed the full lifecycle from system architecture to UI/UX and deployment alongside my team.
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Technical Lead
PolyglotMe · Exeter
Architected and shipped a video conferencing platform connecting students with language tutors. Built the real-time video infrastructure and automated payment bridging between institutions. Reached roughly three hundred users and five hundred paid sessions in the first month then ran hiring for a long-term support team.
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Technical Consultant
Fygo · Durham
Supported a student-focused fintech team exploring open banking and cashback. Worked on architecting their stack, developing their API, while paired with the team through a remote period, and helped maintain the codebase's consistency.
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Software Engineer
Gazeal · London
Built a fintech platform from scratch to accelerate partnered estate agent cashflow. Implemented Open Banking and faster payments integration under strict FCA regulatory compliance.
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Technical Consultant
Freelancer · London
I have built a range of projects for clients, from small websites to complex web applications. Primarily provided bespoke software development services, IT advisory, and expertise across Toptal, Upwork, and through strong networking. I have also contributed to a range of open source projects.
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Education
Formal training and society roles that shaped how I learn and lead.
University
University of Exeter
MSc Computer Science
2018 — 2022
- Computing Society — Events Manager (2019)
- Vice President (2021)
School
St Paul’s School, London
2013 — 2018
- A-Levels: Mathematics, Computer Science, Engineering, Physics
- Multiple national competition wins
Academic work
Two pieces I am still proud of - one collaborative build, one deeper research thread.
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Bachelors Dissertation
Trained early AI models for image generation and style transfer, and built a web app for users to generate and share their content.
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Masters Dissertation
Explored encryption for constrained devices in the NIST lightweight cryptography context with C implementations called from Kotlin via JNI to protect authorised data with novel algorithms.
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Selected Work
A short sample of what I have built or researched; the full list lives on the projects page.
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appa
Founding a new B2C proptech business, applying AI expertise to create solutions for obtaining planning permission across the country. We are automating and reducing bureaucracy and paperwork, so homeowners can build their dream homes.
- Business Development
- TypeScript
- Python
- Django Ninja
- React
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Layla AI
An agentic B2B recruitment platform. I built autonomous scrapers to aggregate candidate footprints across GitHub and socials, generating deterministic confidence intervals for high-accuracy, automated shortlisting.
- TypeScript
- Python
- Django
- React
- Rust
- Tauri