David Underdown
Data Engineer
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolDavid Underdown is a Data Engineer with 11 years' experience focused on digital preservation and digitisation, currently building data solutions for digital-preservation at The National Archives, UK. He brings a rare blend of deep archival domain knowledge and hands-on data engineering skills, having progressed from senior DBA to Senior Digital Archivist before his current role. Based in London, he designs systems that make long-term access to born-digital and digitised collections reliable and auditable. His background at Imperial College and cross-disciplinary experience enable him to translate archival requirements into robust data pipelines and storage strategies. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic, durability-first approaches to preserving cultural and organizational memory at scale.
11 years of coding experience
BSc (hons), BSc (hons) at Imperial College LondonA-Levels, A-Levels at King George V VIth Form College
Github Skills (70)
csv-parse10
csv-parsing10
validation10
api10
csv10
pngquant10
java10
csv-parser10
csv-reader10
eagle10
mozjpeg9
text-recognition9
reference-implementation9
codec9
lossless9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
DavidUnderdown/DiscoveryAPI
Feb 2018 - Jan 2019
Contributions:6 releases, 50 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
DavidUnderdown/discovery-data-analysis
Mar 2018 - Jan 2019
Contributions:20 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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