Stuart Lewis
Director Of Digital, Data And IT
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolStuart Lewis is an accomplished digital and IT leader with 19 years’ experience delivering technology and research services across the UK and New Zealand, currently serving as Director of Digital, Data and IT at Scottish Enterprise. He combines hands-on technical roots—longstanding contributions and release leadership to the widely used DSpace open-source repository—with strategic delivery of national-scale services, having secured over £2M in research and infrastructure grants. Stuart is known for building high-performing multidisciplinary teams spanning IT, libraries, researchers and support staff, and for translating academic needs into robust technical strategy. His expertise in Open Access and Research Data Management has led to international invited keynotes and collaborative work with multiple UK centres of excellence. Beyond operational delivery, he has shaped sector leadership including co-authoring a transatlantic IT leadership guide and serving on boards and charity trusteeships. Practical, research-informed and relationship-driven, he excels at bridging technical and academic cultures to deliver impactful shared services.
19 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BEng, Software Engineering, First Class, BEng, Software Engineering, First Class at University of Wales, Aberystwyth
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apidoc9
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Github contributions (5)
DSpace/DSpace
Jan 2007 - Oct 2011
(Official) The DSpace digital asset management system that powers your Institutional Repository
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:286 commits in 4 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Stuart primarily focused on enhancing the DSpace digital asset management system, contributing to back-end functionalities and user interface improvements. They worked on improving the usability of bitstream lists and linking subjects and authors on item pages. Furthermore, they addressed a bug related to the OAI-PMH responses and refined the suggest feature.
management-systemopen-accessdigital-assetdigital-asset-managementpowers
opentexts/opentexts
May 2020 - Aug 2021
Register of open digitised texts
Contributions:23 reviews, 294 commits, 194 PRs in 1 year 2 months
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