John Stevenson
Senior Software Developer at British Geological Survey
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJohn Stevenson is a Senior Software Developer with 10 years’ experience building GIS-focused data engineering, DevOps and reproducible science tooling from his base in Edinburgh. A former volcanology researcher and Royal Society of Edinburgh fellow, he translates complex geoscience problems into production software—leading sensor data platforms, ETL libraries and Ansible/Docker infrastructure at the British Geological Survey. He has designed large-scale migrations and CI-driven workflows for spatial databases, built RESTful geodata extraction services, and created QGIS integrations and reproducible spatial notebooks using GeoPandas. Equally at home writing Python libraries as authoring internal reports and training scientists, he champions open source practices to make scientific analyses portable and testable. An unusual blend of field science and systems engineering, he once compiled datasets from 250+ Icelandic field sites and still publishes practical guides that attract sustained public interest.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Geological and Earth Sciences/Geosciences (Volcanology), Ph.D., Geological and Earth Sciences/Geosciences (Volcanology) at The Open UniversityM.Sci, Natural Sciences (Geological Sciences), 2.1, M.Sci, Natural Sciences (Geological Sciences), 2.1 at University of Cambridgehigh school of dundeePh.D., Geological and Earth Sciences/Geosciences (Volcanology), Ph.D., Geological and Earth Sciences/Geosciences (Volcanology) at Lancaster University
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
170reputation
20kreached
4answers
2questions
Github Skills (200)
meteorology10
python10
geojson10
gitlab-runner10
python-server10
orchestration10
runner10
simplify10
osgeo10
ogc10
qgis10
docker-compose10
arcgis10
api10
sql10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
volcan01010/BritishGeologicalSurvey.github.io
Oct 2019 - Feb 2025
BGS is responsible for advising the UK government on geoscience and providing impartial advice to industry, academia and the public.
Contributions:2 PRs, 50 pushes, 8 branches in 5 years 5 months
wpspythonadvicebgsgeospatial
BritishGeologicalSurvey/etlhelper
Sep 2019 - Nov 2022
ETL Helper is a Python ETL library to simplify data transfer into and out of databases.
Contributions:29 releases, 6 reviews, 237 commits in 3 years 2 months
pythondb2sql-databasesqldatabases
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