Ian Ibbotson
Chief Technical Officer - Alert-Hub.org at alert-hub.org
Sheffield, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolIan Ibbotson is a pragmatic technology leader and founder with over 12 years of senior experience building interoperable data systems, microservice architectures, and public-interest alerting platforms. As CTO of Alert-Hub.org and director of Knowledge Integration Ltd, he blends hands-on delivery—Groovy/Grails, Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes—with strategic consultancy for public sector and library ecosystems. He has a strong track record in semantic technologies, large-scale ETL and real-time spatial alerting (CAP Aggregator / CAP Collator) that underpins life-saving information flows. Ian also leads pro-bono civic tech initiatives, runs Semweb Services to improve emergency messaging performance, and contributes to open projects like GOKb and FOLIO governance. His background in computer studies and long history of turning research prototypes into production systems mean he pairs academic rigour with practical, auditable engineering.
12 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
bradfieldComputer Studies, Computer Studies, Computer Studies, Computer Studies at Sheffield Hallam University
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Github contributions (2)
ianibo/OpenLocalInformationDirectory
Jan 2014 - Apr 2014
Contributions:7 commits in 2 months
k-int/gokb-phase1
Apr 2014 - Apr 2014
Contributions:6 commits in 1 day
rulesphasephase-1game-development
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