Steve was founder and CTO of Prelert, which developed novel unsupervised machine learning technologies to identify anomalies in IT Ops and IT Security data. Prelert was acquired by Elastic in September 2016, and Steve continues to grow and lead the machine learning group at Elastic. Prior to Prelert, Steve was a founding member of Riversoft (IPO'ed and acquired by Micromuse) and Njini (acquired by Riverbed). Prior to software development, Steve worked in the Computational Mechanics group at Imperial College, London. Steve holds MEng in Mechanical Engineering and a PhD in Computational Methods from Imperial College, London, as well as a CES from École Centrale de Lyon.