Summary
Dave Rowe is a senior full-stack developer and technical leader with 11 years of experience building web, mobile, and geospatial solutions across public sector, startups, and SMEs. Currently at Geovation (Ordnance Survey) he helps incubate location-data startups, provides technical clinics, and delivers thought leadership on architecture, product management, and developer best practices. He founded the award-winning Libraries Hacked initiative to promote open library data and has repeatedly delivered automated open-data pipelines and geospatial MIS products for councils. Comfortable from hands-on coding to CTO-level strategy, he has led teams using modern stacks (React, Node, Mapbox, AWS Lambda) and pragmatic CI/automation. He combines a civic-minded focus on data-informed decision making with practical skills in data storytelling and mobile-first delivery. Based in Bradford-on-Avon with a Computer Science degree from Exeter, he brings a rare mix of public-sector empathy and startup-grade technical delivery.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at University of Exeter
Newent Community School