Richard Smith-unna
Founder at Wild & Free Bristol
Bristol, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRichard Smith-unna is a founder and technology leader with 14 years’ experience applying decentralisation, AI, and systems design to scientific publishing, computational biology and open science initiatives. He has led and architected teams at organisations from startups to research-focused NGOs—co-founding Solvers.io, serving as CTO at Resurgo Genetics, directing Fathom Labs, and building decentralised systems for LabDAO. His work spans hands-on software engineering, data science and community-building, with a distinctive emphasis on teaching technology to scientists and designing open-source platforms like PubSweet/INK. Based in Bristol, he combines experimental biology training with practical engineering, translating biological data problems into robust software and decentralised workflows. An unorthodox thinker (his GitHub bio hints at a playful affinity for system symbolism), he excels at bridging academic research and production engineering to make complex science more accessible.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Conservation Biology BSc (Hons), Microbiology, plant biology, biochemistry, 1st Class, Conservation Biology BSc (Hons), Microbiology, plant biology, biochemistry, 1st Class at University of the West of EnglandDoctor of Philosophy - PhD (withdrew before submitting), Computational Plant Biology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD (withdrew before submitting), Computational Plant Biology at University of Cambridge
Japanese, Swahili, toddler
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
metadata10
svg10
command-line-tool10
unix10
redactor10
api10
rehype10
open-access10
sh10
json10
directory-tree10
self-signed-certificate10
matching10
open-data10
assembly10
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
sciencefair-land/sciencefair-elife
Jun 2016 - Apr 2017
Contributions:32 commits, 28 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
blahah/adventure-time
Feb 2016 - May 2020
a web based environment for doing nodeschool adventures
Contributions:4 PRs, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 3 months
nodeschooljavascriptweb-basednodejsadventures
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