JD Bothma is a Senior Data Engineer with 14 years of experience building robust, minimalistic systems that amplify civic impact and governmental transparency. Currently at OpenSanctions, he ensures high-integrity data on sanctioned entities and PEP networks, focusing not just on freshness but on meaningful measures of completeness and trust. His background spans distributed systems, Erlang-based services, SOA, and backend architectures, and he has led product and engineering work at civic tech nonprofit Open Up to deliver pragmatic, high-impact solutions. Passionate about ontology learning, protocols and automated testing, he blends deep technical craft with a civic-minded mission to make public data and institutions more accessible and accountable.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Hons, Computer Science, BSc Hons, Computer Science at University of Warwick
MSc, Computer Science, MSc, Computer Science at Uppsala University
Contributions:6 PRs, 64 pushes, 6 branches in 3 years 2 months
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