Richard Ostler
Head Of Research Data & Systems, Rothamsted Research
United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRichard Ostler is a data and research software leader with 20+ years of hands-on development experience and nine years in senior roles, currently heading Research Data & Systems at Rothamsted Research. He built and now leads a multidisciplinary team of research data managers and software engineers to implement the institute’s Research Data Strategy and embed FAIR practices across long-term agricultural and entomological programmes. Richard combines pragmatic developer skills in Java, Python and database development with strategic capabilities in policy, training, grant review and product delivery—having driven the business case, recruitment and initial implementation of core data platforms. He has a strong track record in clinical and environmental research IT, from electronic lab notebook evaluation to open-source farm management deployment, and is known for translating complex scientific needs into auditable, production-ready systems.
9 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computational Biology, Pass, Master's degree, Computational Biology, Pass at University of YorkBachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Zoology, 1st Class (hons), Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Zoology, 1st Class (hons) at The University of Sheffield
Github Skills (35)
ecology9
semantics9
agriculture8
soil8
linked-open-data7
describe7
digital-humanities7
ontology7
geneontology7
earth-science7
transform6
owl6
validate6
tabular6
drupal6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
GLTEN/GLTEN-Schema
May 2019 - Mar 2022
Contributions:1 release, 11 commits, 13 pushes in 2 years 10 months
Rothamsted-Ecoinformatics/YieldbookDatasetDrafts
Jan 2019 - Mar 2023
Contributions:86 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 3 months
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