Nicholas Watt
Portfolio

MSc Artificial Intelligence • AI Solutions Engineer
Python • SQL • AI Agents • Forward Deployed Engineering

About Me

I am an AI Solutions Engineer at FORM IT Solutions, where I lead the company's AI capability as its sole AI specialist. I design, build and deploy production AI solutions for small and medium-sized enterprises, including LLM agents, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems and agent-driven web applications, delivered primarily on a Microsoft Azure and Foundry.

My interests centre on applying AI to complex, real-world problems, particularly those involving structured data, forecasting, optimisation and decision-making under uncertainty. I am most drawn to forward deployed engineering roles, where I can work directly with customers to understand their operations, design solutions around their data and take them through to production.

I combine strong analytical and statistical thinking with a practical understanding of how AI systems behave once they are deployed. I value clarity, reproducibility and technical precision, and I am able to communicate complex technical concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders alike, a skill central to scoping and delivering client work.

Deep Learning for Predictive Analysis
of Cardiovascular Diseases

Combining Deep learning with Explainable AI (XAI) for the prediction of Cardiovascular Disease. Implemented using PyTorch

Project preview: cardiovascular disease prediction <>
Project

Human-in-the-Loop RL
for Autonomous Racing

Project preview: human-in-the-loop reinforcement learning

Implemented reinforcement learning approaches to train a sensor-equipped F1-Tenth car to race on a track. Extended the baseline with a Human-in-the-Loop approach and compared performance through evaluation.

Project

House Price Prediction
Using a Deep Neural Network

Project preview: house price prediction model

Preprocessed an unfiltered raw dataset using EDA and outlier-resistant normalisation. Built a DNN in Python using Keras to predict house prices and compared results against a traditional neural network using metrics such as RMSE.

Qualifications

Completed

MSc Artificial Intelligence — Merit (69%)
Northumbria University, 2024 – 2025

BSc Computer Science — 2:1 (65%)
Newcastle University, 2021 – 2024

Currently Working On

Advanced Machine Learning on Google Cloud
Professional certification

Skills

Languages: Python, SQL, Java, JavaScript, HTML, C, C++
AI: LLM agents, retrieval-augemented generation (RAG), model selection
ML: PyTorch, scikit-learn, evaluation/validation, XAI
Data: pandas, NumPy, data cleaning, feature engineering, end-to-end pipelines
Engineering: Git, APIs, OOP, cloud deployment
Interests: Agentic AI, Finance, Machine Learning, Statistics