About
I am an architect and engineer working to build better interfaces between humans and data. Sometimes that's by leading new products developing cutting-edge data infrastructure and sometimes that's by researching new patterns and models with real data users. I'm a founder of Register Dynamics – a data consultancy on a mission to make data useful for everyone.
Projects
Bacalhau is a platform for fast, cost efficient, and secure computation that enables users to run compute jobs where the data is generated and stored.
Recognising the wider value of the UK Trade Tariff data product, I ensured that the full dataset and a manual of explanatory guidance were released publicly under an open license and carried out peer-recognised research into their users.
I led a team of 10-14 researchers, designers and developers to build and deliver new greenfield data management system that stores, manages and communicates the UK's applied trade tariff policy to a challenging and high-pressure Brexit deadline by setting direction, making prioritisation decisions, and defining agile sprints.
Drawing on experiences with data architects, developers, data owners, senior leaders and policy professionals, we produced a new product to solve major problems with controlled list management.
In order to be able to offer compelling advantages, the control and enforcement powers that data trusts have needs to be high enough that misusing the data in trust is prohibitively difficult. By examining case studies in audit technology, our purpose is to show that cost-effective strong auditing is possible today and encourage others to build things that reduce the cost further in the future.
Speaking
Writing
In this journal article published in IEEE Software, we describe the preliminary findings of an interview study investigating experiences with using open data sets from the U.K. government’s Department for International Trade and techniques used for sharing version-controlled open data.