Chris Little
IT Fellow - Operational Infrastructures
Greater Exeter Area United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorChris Little is an IT Fellow specializing in operational infrastructures with 14 years' experience bridging meteorology, geospatial standards, and high-performance technical systems. He has led 24/7 production of safety-critical weather services at the Met Office while co-chairing the OGC Met-Ocean Domain Working Group and contributing to WMO global infrastructure modernisation. His expertise spans HPC, massive storage, telecoms, scientific visualisation, data formats, and NWP/data assimilation algorithms, coupled with hands-on work in OpenWIS and GeoNetwork implementations. Active in capacity building, he supports standards and interoperability efforts from cutting-edge international projects to developing-country consultancy, and sits on the OGC Architecture Board. Less obvious: he combines deep operational responsibility with sustained standards leadership, ensuring research-grade innovations become robust, globally interoperable services.
14 years of coding experience
Github Skills (144)
python10
ply10
datasets10
specification10
spatial10
streaming10
environmental10
gltf10
ogc10
triplestore10
3d-models10
api10
noaa10
linked-open-data10
photogrammetry10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
opengeospatial/CoverageJSON
Apr 2019 - Dec 2022
Contributions:1 release, 54 reviews, 290 commits in 3 years 9 months
public-repojson
opengeospatial/EDR-API-Sprint
Mar 2020 - Jul 2020
Contributions:35 commits, 2 PRs, 35 pushes in 4 months
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