Douglas Ashton
Data & Devices Lead
Bath, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDouglas Ashton is a Data & Devices lead with 11 years’ experience applying data science and physics expertise across the energy sector, combining hands-on engineering with team-building and delivery. He progressed from academic research positions through consultancy at Mango Solutions to senior and chief data science roles at Pure Planet and Powerverse, where he now leads device and data initiatives. Comfortable with both people and machines, he accelerates data teams and productionises analytics into operational systems. His open-source work includes full‑stack contributions to collaborative data analysis tooling (rcloud), where he refactored search functionality and integrated Docker and Solr for more robust developer workflows. Trained as a physicist at Oxford and Nottingham, he brings a rigorous, measurement-driven approach to messy real-world energy problems.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
MPhys Physics, MPhys Physics at University of OxfordDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Physics at University of Nottingham
Stackoverflow
675reputation
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18answers
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Github Skills (18)
r10
fullstack-development10
solr10
full-stack10
dockers9
docker9
javascript7
csv6
igraph6
adjacency-matrix6
sparklyr6
dataframe6
markdown6
dijkstra6
rest-api5
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
att/rcloud
Feb 2017 - Feb 2018
Collaborative data analysis and visualization
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:39 commits, 3 PRs, 11 comments in 11 months
Contributions summary:Douglas primarily worked on refactoring the Rcloud project, moving functionalities from the `rcloud.support` package to the `rcloud.solr` package, which suggests a focus on the search features. The commits show the user integrating Docker for development and Solr, indicating contributions to the infrastructure. They also modified search-related code, including templates and result presentation.
data-analysisdata-scienceknitrdata-visualizationcollaborative
MangoTheCat/radarchart
Nov 2015 - Jan 2019
Implementation of the radar chart from chart.js library
Contributions:4 releases, 181 commits, 15 PRs in 3 years 3 months
chartsjs-librarychartradarradar-chart
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