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deannaspinks/README.md

Hi, I’m Deanna 👋

Software Engineer | Data Practitioner | Applied AI | Digital Health Systems | Biomedical Data

I’m a machine-learning–oriented engineer working across data workflows, reproducible experimentation pipelines, backend services, and cloud-aligned development. My background in biomedical science, neuroscience research, and computing gives me a strong foundation for building reliable, privacy-conscious systems in health and research contexts.

I’ve worked with EEG, behavioural, and psychophysics datasets, timing-sensitive acquisition workflows, and structured ML pipelines, while also building backend components, ingestion pipelines, containerised environments, and early applied-AI prototypes.

🏆 Winner – NextGenAI Hackathon (2025) Contributed backend logic, data handling, workflow reliability features, and early scheduling functionality for a voice-assistive healthcare prototype delivered in 7 days.

🏆 Winner – eSafety Hackathon Mini Challenge (2025) Contributor to the winning Mini Challenge team for MLAI’s Needle in the Hashtag Hackathon, designing and training a hybrid DistilBERT-based multilabel classifier that identifies high-risk online personas by combining text embeddings with linguistic and network features, in two days.

I enjoy the intersection where data → modelling → engineering → real world context meet, creating systems that are robust, explainable, and useful to real users.

🛠️ Tech I Work With

💻 Languages

  • Advanced: Python, C
  • Intermediate: Go, Java
  • Proficient: JavaScript, HTML/CSS

📊 Machine Learning & Data

  • scikit-learn · NumPy · Pandas
  • supervised pipelines · feature engineering · leakage prevention
  • data cleaning · cross-validation & evaluation patterns
  • exploratory analysis · statistical reasoning
  • Learning: TensorFlow, MLflow, streaming (MQTT/Kafka)

🧪 Biomedical & Signal Data

  • EEG · behavioural & psychophysics datasets
  • sampling rate considerations · timing sensitivity
  • artefact awareness · MATLAB data-acquisition workflows

🧩 Backend & Systems

  • FastAPI · Flask · REST APIs
  • containerised workflows (Docker) · Linux · GitHub Actions
  • reproducible environments · modular service patterns
  • Learning: API gateways, edge-compute patterns

☁️ Cloud Foundations

  • GCP · Azure · AWS (foundational)
  • cloud IAM basics · secrets/config management
  • deployment hygiene & environment setup

🔐 Compliance & Healthcare

  • QMS-awareness: ISO 9001/45001
  • PHI/PII handling · privacy-by-design principles
  • Learning: ISO 13485, HIPAA, FHIR, ISO 27001

📁 Where to Find My Work

👉 Portfolio Organisation (WIP)

I set this up so I could integrate my GitHub repos with Linear. Aiming for this to be the home of more polished, documented projects.

👉 This GitHub Account

Explorations, prototypes, and learning repositories.

Some applied-AI and ML projects aren't in my GitHub - feel free to ask about in-progress work.

🎯 Professional Interests

  • Digital health & MedTech innovation
  • Applied AI patterns for real workflows
  • Data engineering supporting ML & experimentation
  • Systems that balance performance, reliability, and compliance
  • Machine learning on behavioural, biosignal & health datasets

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  1. deannaspinks deannaspinks Public

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  2. deanna-spinks/.github deanna-spinks/.github Public

    Portfolio projects and experiments by Deanna Spinks.This organization consolidates selected repositories to demonstrate skills in cloud, AI, and full-stack engineering, with CI/CD pipelines and pro…

  3. deanna-spinks/fastapi-service deanna-spinks/fastapi-service Public

    A modern, cloud-ready Patient Management microservice built with FastAPI

    Python

  4. aiko_chat aiko_chat Public

    Forked from geekscape/aiko_chat

    Aiko Services based chat server

    Python

  5. deanna-spinks/eeg_demo deanna-spinks/eeg_demo Public

    Python