About

Hello, I’m Iain. I’m a tech lead at the Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science at the University of Oxford.

I speak Python, SQL, and a couple of more exotic languages: Vega and Vega-Lite.

I’ve worked in tech for over 10 years. During this time, I’ve been:

• a senior software engineer, also at the Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science, where I helped build OpenSAFELY.
• a data visualisation engineer at Polecat, where I helped develop visual, interactive interfaces to data.
• a data engineer at Verisk Maplecroft, where I helped build ETL pipelines with Apache Airflow.
• a software engineer, also at Verisk Maplecroft, where I helped build content management systems with Django and Wagtail.

Before working in tech, I was a research fellow in GeoInformatics at the University of St Andrews, and did a PhD and MSc in Geographic Information Science at the giCentre, City, University of London.