From medical imaging to gas data: A career built on curiosity

When people ask me what I do, I usually get two blank looks. The first when I say I work at Correla. The second when I explain that we run services for Britain's gas market. Almost nobody has heard of either, and in a way that is the point. Every time a household switches supplier, a meter is read, or an engineer needs to know what equipment sits at a property, data moves through systems that most people will never see. When that layer works well, it is invisible. It has to be.

I joined Correla eighteen months ago, after a career spent hopping between industries and continents. The role has met and keeps exceeding the expectations I arrived with, so I’d like to share some insight into my working life at Correla.

A career built on curiosity

I trained as a biomedical engineer in Argentina. Since then, my career has been a series of leaps between problems: medical imaging in the United States, including a device named in Time Magazine's Best Inventions of 2004, then biometrics and AI vision systems that identify waste on recycling lines. From there I moved into connected infrastructure for some of the world's largest datacentres, and motion capture hardware for film and biomechanics. Along the way I moved to the UK and completed a master’s and a PhD in renewable energy technology, because I wanted to contribute to the energy transition.

On paper those industries have nothing in common. In practice, they were all the same job: understand a market problem deeply, then work with talented people to solve it with the right technology.

Correla was my first real chance to do that in the field I had spent years studying, in a system that runs on data.

What surprised me

What I did not expect was the range of knowledge sitting inside one company, or how freely people share it.

In a single day here, my conversations can run from deep data engineering, moving, ingesting and processing enormous volumes of industry data every day. They can shift to reworking an internal process, so we deliver results to customers more efficiently. Or I'll be sitting with industry colleagues, analysing the opportunities coming over the horizon, from new regulation to new uses of energy data.

None of these conversations are small talk. Each one ends somewhere real: a decision the market relies on, a service a customer depends on, a step towards a cheaper and greener energy system.

Very few jobs let you say that every conversation counts, and it is easy to feel energised by that. But the part I value most is the openness. There is no gatekeeping here. Ask a data engineer why a pipeline behaves the way it does, or an industry expert why a rule exists, and you will get a proper answer, usually with the history behind it. People want you to understand, so everyone around them levels up.

Eighteen months in, and I am still learning something new most days, and I have stopped expecting that to slow down.

The opportunity ahead

For someone with my background, the opportunities here are hard to ignore. The energy system is changing faster than at any point in its history, and the demand for good data, and good products built on that data, keeps growing. I like hard problems, and the intersection of critical infrastructure, data, and a market in transition is full of them.

So if you have never heard of Correla, that probably means we are doing our job. But underneath that quiet surface is one of the most knowledgeable and generous groups of people I have worked with, in any industry, on any continent.

That seemed worth sharing.