Andy Cobley
Senior Lecturer at University of Dundee
Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAndy Cobley is a Senior Lecturer and Program Director for the MSc in Data Science and Engineering at the University of Dundee, with 14 years in academic and technical roles and a career in computing stretching back to the 1980s. He designs and leads pioneering data science and data engineering programs—the first of their kind in Scotland—while blending hands-on systems experience (including NOSQL and big data platforms) with research in citizen science infrastructures for large-scale contributor networks. He has organised Scotland’s first Big Data conference, spoken at industry events like the Apache Cassandra Summit, and led EU projects (Grow Observatory, WeObserve) focused on scalable citizen-science data collection. Comfortable bridging teaching, administration and sysadmin duties, he combines deep practical knowledge of distributed systems and business intelligence with a background in electronics and even music composition, reflecting an unusual interdisciplinary perspective.
14 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Music Theory and Composition, First Class, BA, Music Theory and Composition, First Class at The Open UniversityMsc, Real time control of Boxer Charger, Msc, Real time control of Boxer Charger at University of Dundee
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Github Skills (26)
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
acobley/circles
Jan 2014 - Dec 2022
Contributions:1 release, 98 commits, 147 pushes in 8 years 11 months
acobley/myflix-catalogue
Oct 2015 - Dec 2020
Catalogue service for the University of Dundee AC51041 devops course
Contributions:18 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 2 months
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