Andy South
Data Engineer
Norwich, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAndy South is a Data Engineer with 13 years of experience bridging ecology, spatial analysis and health data engineering, currently OMOP-ifying clinical datasets at University College London Hospitals. He combines deep R expertise and a PhD in Ecology & GIS with hands-on experience building widely used mapping tools (notably rworldmap) and leading the afrimapr project to simplify health data mapping across Africa. His background spans team leadership at CEFAS, scientific software development, and applied research for government and international agencies, giving him a knack for translating complex domain problems into reproducible data pipelines. Comfortable with SQL, spatial toolchains and open-source maintenance, he still contributes to and supports packages he authored. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic solutions that balance rigorous analysis with production-ready code.
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 UniversityBachelor of Science (BSc), Biological Sciences, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Biological Sciences at University of East Anglia, Norwich
English, Spanish
Github Skills (77)
r10
rnaturalearth10
geographic10
r-package10
learnr10
spatial9
mediawiki-extension9
visualization9
traits9
gis9
geo9
fst9
hdx9
health-data9
maps8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
AndySouth/shinytse
Jul 2014 - Nov 2015
Contributions:131 commits, 8 pushes in 1 year 4 months
AndySouth/resistanceGame
Jul 2015 - Jan 2018
Contributions:48 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
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