Tony Bowden
Founder at Various Events
Tallinn, Harju County, Estonia
Summary
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Top SchoolTony Bowden is a founder and product-driven engineer with 25+ years designing and shipping internet products across high-ambiguity, high-impact contexts. He built one of Europe’s first e-commerce successes, led a profitable turnaround of an ISP, and steered civic-tech projects from grant-funded experiments to commercial products used by organizations like Facebook and Oxfam. Tony founded Peppercat from the EveryPolitician project to provide global structured politician data for AML and regtech customers, combining deep data engineering with pragmatic productisation. He thrives where goals are fuzzy and constraints are messy, quickly clarifying simple overarching objectives and evolving processes for rapid adaptive progress. A veteran speaker and open-source contributor, he has a track record of turning messy problems into durable, scalable systems across continents.
24 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Queen's University Belfast
Github Skills (161)
postgresql10
democracy10
metadata10
ruby10
snappy10
polars10
excel10
parquet10
parliament10
san10
statistics10
sampling10
ckan10
sql10
data-wrangling10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
every-politician-scrapers/djibouti
Jan 2022 - Apr 2023
Contributions:52 reviews, 53 PRs, 117 pushes in 1 year 2 months
every-politician-scrapers/kazakhstan
Aug 2021 - Mar 2023
Contributions:261 reviews, 268 PRs, 397 pushes in 1 year 7 months
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