Jonathan Bourne
Founder at UCL
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJonathan Bourne is a PhD-trained data scientist and founder with a decade of experience turning messy, high-stakes problems into reproducible, production-ready analytics across maritime decarbonisation, housing, and energy. He blends academic rigor (UCL PhD, multiple peer-reviewed papers and a 341M-word historical OCR corpus) with industry delivery—building novel ship-efficiency measures, agent-based automation pipelines, and reusable open-source tooling. Comfortable translating technical work for non-technical stakeholders, he has secured research funding, advised NGOs and local government, and driven impact that attracted international media attention. Equally at home in NLP, geospatial analysis and networks, Jonathan also researches LLM-driven archival OCR pipelines in his spare time and once achieved front-page Reddit visibility for his work.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Mechanical Engineering, Master’s Degree Mechanical Engineering at The University of ManchesterUniversity College London
English, Norwegian, Spanish
Stackoverflow
1,961reputation
154kreached
32answers
44questions
Github Skills (51)
python-modules8
spatial7
curl6
pypi6
merge6
knitr6
igraph6
documentation-generator6
ggplot6
xls6
pdf6
char6
geospatial6
python6
zip6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
silverstream-tech/pyseatrials
Nov 2022 - Jan 2025
A library of functions for understanding the performance of ships during commissioning sea trials
Contributions:3 reviews, 44 PRs, 109 pushes in 2 years 3 months
understandingperformanceshipstrialscommissioning
JonnoB/JonnoB.github.io
Jun 2017 - Jul 2022
Test page to try and get the HTML widgets to display
Contributions:2 PRs, 40 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 2 months
widgets
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