Michael Gordon
Senior Product Manager at The Pensions Regulator
Southampton, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Gordon is a Senior Product Manager with 11 years’ experience shaping cloud-native geospatial platforms and APIs that serve government, business and developer ecosystems. He led Ordnance Survey’s transformation of foundational mapping data into an open-standards, developer-friendly OS Data Hub and helped negotiate the £1bn Public Sector Geospatial Agreement, while growing partner channels from hundreds to over 10,000. Now at The Pensions Regulator he drives digital platform strategy to safeguard national savings, and sits on the advisory board of PLACE, a data trust for hyperlocal mapping. Trained in fine art and citizenship studies, he combines a design-aware mindset with technical product leadership and deep domain expertise in geospatial standards and platform delivery. Notably, his work has underpinned critical public services—such as address verification used during the Covid-19 response—demonstrating impact at scale.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BA (Hons) Fine Art, BA (Hons) Fine Art at University of PortsmouthMSc Citizenship and Democracy, MSc Citizenship and Democracy at University of Southampton
Github Skills (20)
triplestore10
linked-open-data10
spatial-data10
linked-data10
spatial10
data-management9
open-data9
api5
wfs4
querying4
openstreetmap3
sprint3
java2
geospatial2
geojson2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
OrdnanceSurvey/OS-Open-Names
Aug 2015 - Sep 2016
OS Open Names demos and code snippets
Contributions:12 commits, 2 PRs, 6 pushes in 1 year
snippets
OrdnanceSurvey/OS-Places
Apr 2015 - Sep 2016
OS Places repository for demos and code examples
Contributions:13 commits, 1 PR, 3 pushes in 1 year 4 months
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