Mitch Hensman

I trained as a civil engineer at Imperial College London, with philosophy and ethics electives that complicated things in useful ways. After graduating I spent three years on construction sites in Qatar and Australia with Bechtel, then moved into programme management with Arcadis in Oman and the UK.

At Arcadis I taught myself Tableau, earned expert certification, and built business intelligence products across seven workstreams; health and safety, sustainability, governance, data integrity, project quality. People needed to make decisions from data they didn’t have time to interpret themselves. That’s most of what I was doing. I still maintain a public Tableau portfolio.

A year at Dataiku brought data science implementation for Fortune 500 and non-profit organisations. Since 2020, I’ve worked independently; first running analytics and AI solutions for a Southeast Asian NGO, now helping organisations integrate AI into how they actually operate. A dashboard means nothing if the team doesn’t trust the data. An AI workflow fails if nobody redesigned the process it automates.

Outside professional work, I take the same systematic approach to life. I’ve spent cumulative months on silent meditation retreats. I track nutrition and training data as a vegan athlete. I maintain a structured framework across ten life domains; not because life should be optimised, but because it should be examined. I draw on Stoic philosophy, Buddhist contemplative practice, and Effective Altruism as lenses for decision-making; not as identities.

I speak English and Croatian fluently. I’ve lived and worked across Southern Africa, the Middle East, Europe, Australasia, and Southeast Asia. Currently based in Chiang Mai.

Location

Primary: Chiang Mai, Thailand 🇹🇭 Origin: London, UK 🇬🇧