Gavin Chait
Honorary Principal Research Fellow at UCL
Marseille, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
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Top SchoolGavin Chait is a multidisciplinary data scientist, engineer, economist and author who leads data-driven product development and research into data collection, analysis, release and governance. He is based in Marseille and currently serves as Honorary Principal Research Fellow at UCL and Director of Open Data Consulting and Data Science at Whythawk, guiding data-driven projects for governments and international organizations. His work spans open data infrastructure and socio-economic development across Africa for the World Bank, WHO and regional governments, including Edo State, Nigeria, Tanzania, Ghana and Mauritius. He created openLocal.uk, a quarterly-updated commercial location database, and qwyre.com, an ereader and collaborative publishing platform for creative fiction. A lifelong explorer of the frontiers of human progress, he blends hands-on software engineering with macro-level policy insight, fuelled by coffee.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
University of Cape Town
Afrikaans, English, French
Stackoverflow
167reputation
10kreached
3answers
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Github Skills (160)
fastapi10
postgresql10
web-application10
python10
json-schema10
postgres10
cookiecutter10
swagger10
htmx10
backend10
openapi10
flask10
letsencrypt10
docker-compose10
openapi310
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
whythawk/full-stack-fastapi-postgresql
Jul 2021 - Jan 2023
Full stack, modern web application generator. Using FastAPI, PostgreSQL as database, Nuxt3, Docker, automatic HTTPS and more.
Contributions:10 releases, 2 reviews, 26 commits in 1 year 6 months
pythonmagic-link-authenticationflaskweb-applicationdocker
whythawk/whyqd-hub
Feb 2023 - Nov 2024
Perform schema-to-schema transforms for interoperability and data reuse. Transform messy data into structured schemas using readable, auditable methods.
Contributions:4 PRs, 87 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 8 months
data-interoperabilitydata-managementdata-sciencedata-wranglingopen-science
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