JD Bothma
Senior Data Engineer
Norwich, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJD 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 WarwickMSc, Computer Science, MSc, Computer Science at Uppsala University
English, Afrikaans, Swedish
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Github Skills (200)
metadata10
crawler10
catalog10
browser10
api10
matching10
open-data10
dokku10
portal10
fiscal10
scraper10
orm10
python10
iso10
ansible-role10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
keep-the-receipts/procurement-portal-backend
Sep 2020 - Mar 2022
Backend for a portal for searching procurement records
Contributions:8 reviews, 89 PRs, 81 pushes in 1 year 6 months
procurementrecordsportalbackendsearching
jbothma/mfmacrawl
Jun 2016 - Jul 2019
Contributions:6 PRs, 64 pushes, 6 branches in 3 years 2 months
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