Craig Walton

Independent software engineer in Aberdeen, Scotland.

I take on contract software engineering work, remotely or on-site, from applications and backend systems to developer tooling and infrastructure.

Projects

Inspect AI

Contributed to UK AI Security Institute's open-source Python framework for large language model evaluations. Developed its sandboxed compute environments on Docker and Kubernetes, including Inspect K8s Sandbox.
Inspect Flow and Inspect Scout

Open-source Python packages built on Inspect AI, for Meridian Labs: Inspect Flow runs AI evaluations at scale and Inspect Scout analyses the resulting agent transcripts. Ongoing contributions across both, from public APIs and data formats to CLI tooling and fixes.
Evaluation platform, UK AI Security Institute

AWS infrastructure for evaluating pre-release frontier models to tight timescales: staff compute, Kubernetes clusters, public-facing research studies and ETL pipelines.
Race strategy software, Red Bull Racing

Real-time strategy and car-performance analysis tools used on the pit wall, in the garage and at the factory, fed by live timing, GPS, weather and race-control data over Kafka. C#/.NET desktop front-ends with C# and Python services on Kubernetes.
Personal projects

Property Explorer, a photorealistic 3D map of properties for sale built in React with Python data pipelines; Mortgage Sim, a buy-versus-rent simulator in C#; and Climate Explorer, an interactive React infographic of Earth's climate system.

If you have a project you'd like to discuss, I'd be glad to hear from you.