Summary
Irina Bolychevsky is a seasoned digital strategist and systems thinker with 11 years of experience shaping open data, interoperability and decentralised technology across government and civil society. She co-founded Redecentralize, led CKAN to international adoption (powering data.gov and data.gov.uk), and has designed national data standards and personal data infrastructure within the UK Government Digital Service and NHS. Equally at home with product, policy and technical governance, she has run pioneering pilots such as the UK's first data trust for the Open Data Institute and advised governments from Dubai to the UAE on core registers and common standards. A board member at the Open Knowledge Foundation and frequent conference speaker, she blends mathematical training with a pragmatic flair for building communities, teams and frameworks that make complex ecosystems interoperable and accountable.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BA and MMathPhil (Hons), Mathematics and Philosophy, 2.1, BA and MMathPhil (Hons), Mathematics and Philosophy, 2.1 at University of Oxford
Russian