Lynne Davis
Founder at Digital Commons Cooperative
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolLynne Davis is a founder and product leader bridging food systems and technology with 11 years of hands-on experience and a 15-year career focus on agroecology and digital infrastructure. She co-founded and scaled the Open Food Network and later launched Food Data Collaboration to enable agroecological producers to collaborate without changing their software, unlocking discoverability, logistics and data insights. Equally comfortable in coding and strategy, she has contributed back-end fixes and data-integrity work to the Open Food Network open-source codebase while leading global product direction and analytics. Her work at Digital Commons Cooperative and on national reports shows a knack for turning community-driven data into policy-relevant insights. A former board chair and lecturer in regenerative food systems, she combines engineering training with a Master’s in Agricultural Economics to translate complex technical and sectoral challenges into practical, impact-driven solutions. Notably, she brings product-level rigor to grassroots food projects, pairing developer attention to detail with systems change ambition.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Agricultural Economics, Master’s Degree, Agricultural Economics at SOAS University of LondonBachelor of Engineering, Software, First, Bachelor of Engineering, Software, First at The University of Queensland
Github Skills (7)
rspec10
ruby-rails10
rails10
back-end-development10
ruby10
postgresql9
fody9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
openfoodfoundation/openfoodnetwork
May 2015 - May 2022
Connect suppliers, distributors and consumers to trade local produce.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 reviews, 33 commits, 129 PRs in 7 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Lynne primarily focused on back-end development within the Open Food Network project. Their contributions involved modifying controller logic related to product pricing, updating report generation logic, and addressing issues with payment and balance calculations. They also worked on fixing and improving specifications within the project. The user demonstrated a focus on bug fixes and ensuring data integrity.
farmersdistributorsrailsnonprofitfood
lin-d-hop/openfoodnetwork
Jan 2015 - Feb 2015
Contributions:17 pushes, 24 branches in 1 month
saledistributorsdjangoconsumerssuppliers
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