Biography

I am a geospatial developer focusing on web mapping/GIS applications, data integration, APIs, cloud infrastructure and user experience.

I am the technical lead for geospatial information services and infrastructure within BAS.

This includes:

• Ensuring BAS can deliver its geospatial information through a suitable Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI)
• Providing APIs to integrate data from multiple sources through appropriate technologies and standards
• Providing web-based mapping, analysis and GIS tools for use by our operations staff, science staff and the general public
• Providing support and advice to others on how geospatial data can be delivered with online services
• Developing and implementing platforms our services run on, including automatic provisioning of cloud/on-premise infrastructure, continuous integration and other tools
• Working with other teams, such as data managers, system administrators and various providers and contractors to deliver complex projects
• Promoting user-need driven development and focusing on user experience to make tasks more intuitive, and information more accessible
• Engaging with the wider geospatial community, to improve our services and contribute back ideas as open source software

I joined BAS in 2013, and until 2019 worked as a software developer with the UK Polar Data Centre. I now work in the Mapping and Geospatial Information Centre (MAGIC).

I have a degree in Geography focusing on GIS, geographies of health and perception of crime. I also worked on a JISC funded research project, Bomb Sight.

Outside of technology, I am interested in hiking, diving, board games, traditional/digital cartography and doing cool things with lights.

Since 2020 I have been a software development volunteer with Map Action, a GIS and Information Management charity providing support to humanitarian agencies and partners. Previously I have helped organise, and participated in, local Missing Maps events.