Summary
Andy South is a data engineer with 13 years of experience turning complex biological, ecological, and health data into scalable, actionable insights. He is currently a Data Engineer at University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, focusing on OMOP-based data pipelines and analytics in R. Previously, he led the afrimapr project at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, delivering building blocks to ease health data mapping across Africa. An interdisciplinary researcher and developer, he has built web interfaces for Defra and Newcastle University, created R packages for visualising sustainability surveys, and maintains the widely used rworldmap package. With a PhD in Ecology and GIS from Newcastle and a BSc in Biological Sciences from the University of East Anglia, he combines rigorous academic training with hands-on production coding and is based in Norwich, UK.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Ecology and GIS, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Ecology and GIS at Newcastle University
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Biological Sciences, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Biological Sciences at University of East Anglia, Norwich
English, Spanish