Chris Lowis
Director at Go Free Range Ltd
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolChris Lowis is a Director and data science leader with 17 years of experience bridging academic research and production engineering, including roles at FutureLearn (Head of Data Science), BBC R&D, the University of Southampton and the German Aerospace Center. He holds a PhD in Acoustics and has published academic work while translating research into real-world systems and product-facing analytics. Comfortable both as a hands-on engineer and strategic leader, he has contributed to prominent open-source projects like GOV.UK’s Whitehall, improving backend storage and deployment workflows. Based in London, he now runs Go Free Range Ltd, applying his background in signal processing and research-led experimentation to commercial data science and engineering challenges. Notably, his career shows a consistent pattern of moving innovations from prototype research into robust, testable production systems.
17 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Acoustics, PhD, Acoustics at University of Southampton
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (28)
back-end-development10
carrierwave10
environment-variables10
sidekiq10
ruby10
file-storage10
backend10
testing9
performance-analytics9
performance-monitor9
performance-measurement9
rspec9
configuration-management9
performance-monitoring9
devops9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
alphagov/whitehall
Oct 2017 - Mar 2018
Publishes government content on GOV.UK
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:16 reviews, 231 commits, 77 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Chris's contributions primarily centered around enhancing the system's infrastructure and deployment, along with backend code modifications. They introduced a feature flag, `use_asset_manager`, implemented in the backend and configured through an environment variable. This change involved significant code changes, including the creation of temporary storage directories and adapting existing code to utilize this new feature, impacting the file storage mechanism. Furthermore, the user's commits show changes to the testing infrastructure.
govgovuk-publishing-frontendgovukgovernmentcontainer
chrislo/brain
Apr 2020 - Oct 2020
Contributions:272 commits, 83 pushes, 4 branches in 6 months
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