Ian Hopkinson
Owner at Deva Data
Chester, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolIan Hopkinson is a data scientist and founder with 11+ years of experience turning complex scientific and commercial problems into production data products across startups, enterprises and academia. He built GBG’s Location/Property Intelligence offering end-to-end—sourcing, modelling and handing over to production—while collaborating directly with product, sales and early customers to shape requirements. His background in polymer and biological physics (PhD) and industrial R&D at Unilever gives him uncommon depth in measurement, image analysis and experimental design, which he applies to address-matching and Open Data projects. Equally comfortable prototyping solo (Data Mesh prototype) and leading teams, he combines technical delivery, customer-facing communication and training to move solutions from research to revenue. Now running Deva Data, he consults on data science and engineering with a pragmatic, research-informed approach.
11 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
PhD. Polymer physical chemistry, PhD. Polymer physical chemistry at Durham UniversityBSc (Hons) Chemical Physics, BSc (Hons) Chemical Physics at University of Bristol
french (reading), English
Stackoverflow
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51answers
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Github Skills (110)
metadata10
data-management10
datahub10
hdx10
checker10
data-profiling10
data-catalog10
metadata-management10
pypi10
data-governance10
linkedin10
cli9
image-processing9
python9
pydata9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
IanHopkinson/defra-lidar-viewer
Oct 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:21 commits, 4 PRs, 46 pushes in 5 months
pythonexplorejavascriptlidar-datalidar
OCHA-DAP/hdx-cli-toolkit
Jan 2024 - Mar 2025
A commandline tool for interacting with HDX with a view to doing bulk updates
Contributions:15 releases, 15 reviews, 34 PRs in 1 year 2 months
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