Oliver Bates
Co-owner Worker (freelance) at CETIS LLP
Stevenage, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolOliver Bates is a researcher and technology designer with nine years of experience blending user research, service design, and agile practices to deliver values-aligned projects across public sector, charities, and commercial clients. As co-owner at fractals co-op and a partner at CETIS LLP, he leads mixed-methods research, facilitation, and rapid prototyping to translate complex stakeholder needs into actionable services and digital solutions. His academic background (PhD in HCI) and work at Lancaster University underpin a rare combination of data-driven analysis, energy and transport domain expertise, and playful research methods like games and design fictions. He specialises in ethical, inclusive research that surfaces overlooked pain points—often connecting carbon, sustainability and social justice threads across systems. Comfortable with both hands-on coding and high-level strategy, he pairs technical skills (Python, GIS, time-series analysis) with participatory approaches to shape fairer socio-technical systems. Based in Stevenage, he brings a collaborative, co-op mindset to projects that seek systemic change rather than incremental fixes.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BTEC, ICT Practitioners, Triple Distinction, BTEC, ICT Practitioners, Triple Distinction at Burton CollegeLandau Forte CollegePhD, Human Computer Interaction (Computer Science), PhD, Human Computer Interaction (Computer Science) at Lancaster University
English
Github Skills (21)
leaflet7
python-data7
maps6
python6
javascript6
deck-gl5
data-visualization5
gis5
data-science5
openstreetmap5
apl2
mongodb2
hydrogen2
notebook1
nteract1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
FTC2050/data-standard
Dec 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:31 commits, 27 pushes, 1 branch in 17 days
oscarechobravo/oliverbates.co.uk
Apr 2017 - Jan 2025
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 10 months
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