CURRICULUM VITAE
Founder, Genverv Ltd.
London, UK
A practical stack for building, evaluating, and deploying agentic and language-driven systems.
AI Agents
RAG
LangChain
LangGraph
Rasa
Python
NLP
LlamaIndex
OpenAI Deployment
AWS
Haystack
Hugging Face
10.2023 – Present · London, UK
Lead Curriculum Architect — Conversational AI & Agents
Owns reference architectures and advanced agentic AI curriculum for LLM orchestration, tool integration, system boundaries, and maintainable enterprise assistant deployments.
Subject Matter Expert, LangChain / LangGraph AI Agents
Created production AI agent pipelines in Python using LangChain and LangGraph, including custom tools, AI control logic, OpenAI integration, and safeguards against hallucinations. Deployed live to more than 8,000 DataCamp subscribers.
Generative AI Engineer — RAG Applications
Built an LLM-powered patent chat prototype for biotech use-cases using LangChain, LlamaIndex, AWS Textract, OpenAI, Hugging Face, Streamlit, and Qdrant vector stores for small molecule patent PDFs.
04.2019 – 10.2023 · London, UK
Sentiment analysis
Analysed 60,000 tweets using Facebook’s RoBERTa algorithm to track brand sentiment and identify creative marketing opportunities.
Text similarity
Developed a Gensim tf-idf pipeline for document similarity hierarchies and content recommendation between fiction volumes.
Named entity recognition
Used SpaCy to extract people, organisations, places, events, and dates across 9,000 European Parliamentary documents.
Blicx recommendation simulator
Created a PyCaret and Streamlit machine-learning app to predict videogame recommendation likelihood and model future gaming habits.
PhD, Psychology (Cognitive Neuroscience)
2013 – 2017 · Bangor University, Wales, UK
Investigated MRI brain patterns involved in observational learning using machine learning.
Postdoctoral Researcher (Neuroscience)
2017 – 2019 · Birkbeck / UCL, London, UK
Managed delivery of a videogame-based maths and science learning intervention across 90 primary schools in England involving 6,500 pupils.
Sumanapala, D., Walbrin, J., Kirsch, L., & Cross, E. (2018). Neurodevelopmental perspectives on dance learning: Insights from early adolescence and young adulthood. Progress in Brain Research, 237, 243–277.
Kirsch, L., Diersch, N., Sumanapala, D., & Cross, E. (2018). Dance training shapes action perception and its neural implementation within the young and older adult brain. Neural Plasticity.
