Paul Downey
Planning Data Service Owner
England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolPaul Downey is a seasoned software and data platform leader with 17 years’ experience designing and shipping open-source web systems, currently serving as Service Owner for planning.data.gov.uk at the UK Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government. He blends deep protocol and systems engineering roots—spanning embedded C, high-volume messaging and XML tooling—with product-focused delivery of government data standards and APIs. Paul has led multidisciplinary teams to make land and housing data discoverable and trustworthy for PropTech and policy use, while reducing burden on local authorities. A long-time contributor to open standards and the W3C ecosystem, he pairs pragmatic engineering with public-sector stewardship to turn complex civic data into usable services. An inveterate protocol hacker and “enterprisey doodler,” he brings rare technical breadth from low-level device drivers to large-scale government digital transformation.
17 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Hons Computing and Data Processing, BSc Hons Computing and Data Processing at University of Bradford
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Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (90)
converting10
registers10
service-design10
puppet9
datasets9
bookmarklet9
planning9
python8
docker-registry8
datasette8
resource-management8
census8
pivotal7
ruby7
data-gov7
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
digital-land/digital-land-data
May 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:28 commits, 2 PRs, 25 pushes in 15 days
collectingpublishedgeographicalgovernment
digital-land/conservation-area-collection
Dec 2020 - Sep 2024
Contributions:48 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 9 months
wfsogcregistersconservationtraits
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