Theo McCaie
Head Met Office Informatics Lab And Tech Lead For Data Science
Exeter, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolTheo McCaie is a strategic technology leader and Head of the Met Office Informatics Lab, with 11 years of experience driving AI, ML, data science and data engineering to advance weather and climate services. He leads multidisciplinary teams of data scientists, engineers and scientific software developers to deliver research, operational services and organisational strategy across national and international partners. A physics-trained technologist, Theo combines deep hands-on experience—from full-stack and Python development to cloud and large-scale data systems—with proven agile and innovation leadership. He has repeatedly shifted roles from developer to infrastructure lead to tech lead, giving him a rare end-to-end view of productionising environmental intelligence. Based in Exeter, he is focused on pushing the frontiers of AI for environmental intelligence while embedding robust engineering and reform across teams.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
MPhy Physics with Professional Experience, Physics, MPhy Physics with Professional Experience, Physics at University of ExeterA Level, Biology; Chemistry, Mathematics and Physics, A Level, Biology; Chemistry, Mathematics and Physics at North Devon College
Github Skills (136)
oculus9
meteorology9
forecast9
azure-storage9
jupyterlab9
jupyter9
deploying9
jupyterlab-extension9
chunked8
jupyter-widget8
aframe8
python8
datasets8
intake8
docker8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
informatics-lab/azure-pangeo
Sep 2019 - Jul 2020
our pangeo instance flavoured for azure
Contributions:1 release, 16 PRs, 44 pushes in 10 months
pangeoazure
informatics-lab/intake_informaticslab
Oct 2020 - Jan 2021
Intake catalogues and drivers which provide access to hundreds of terabytes of Met Office data.
Contributions:46 commits, 2 PRs, 9 pushes in 3 months
driverscataloguesmetintakemet-office
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