Joe Hickson
Scientific Software Engineer Team Manager at Met Office
Greater Exeter Area United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJoe Hickson is a Scientific Software Engineer Team Manager with over a decade of experience building and maintaining web and scientific applications, currently leading engineering efforts at the Met Office. He brings deep hands-on expertise in PHP, My/Microsoft SQL, jQuery, and AJAX, combined with practical business analysis skills that help translate domain requirements into reliable software. His background spans product-facing ticketing and warehouse management systems to research-focused scientific tooling, reflecting an ability to work across commercial and technical teams. A former science teacher with a PGCE and a BSc in Forensic Science, he leverages strong communication and mentoring capabilities to coach engineers and bridge gaps between scientists and developers. Known for steady delivery and pragmatic solutions, he tends to focus on maintainability and clear data workflows in complex systems. Based in the Greater Exeter area, he blends scientific literacy with production software leadership in public-sector research environments.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bsc, Forensic Science, Bsc, Forensic Science at University of the West of EnglandPGCE, Science, PGCE, Science at University of Bristol
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Github Skills (57)
difference10
statistics10
open-source10
census10
estimate10
stan10
testing9
data-repository9
continuous-integration9
gaussian-processes9
aws9
omnipay9
driver9
azure8
developer-tools8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
epiforecasts/covid-rt-estimates-batch
Jan 2021 - Nov 2021
Contributions:11 reviews, 8 commits, 4 PRs in 10 months
digitickets/omnipay-gocardlessv2
Feb 2017 - Apr 2020
Omnipay driver for Go Cardless Pro - API v2
Contributions:24 releases, 1 PR, 69 pushes in 3 years 1 month
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