SCRAPERWIKI - Key Persons
Aidan founded ScraperWiki with Dr Julian Todd and raised Seed and series A funding. He worked for Mizhuo Bank … More »in London in his early career, later starting technology company Blue Fountain Systems, a main investor in ScraperWiki. He has recently been appointed as Product Manager for the Humanitarian Data Exchange (HDX), an OpenData platform hosted by UNOCHA which shares humanitarian data. Aidan is active in a number of charities and a keen cyclist. BA (Trinity, Dublin).
Job Titles:
- Head of Business Development
Aine began her career selling HP computers and software to large enterprise customers in the finance, … More »pharmaceutical and mining sectors. She created Pygmalion, Microsoft's first UK Gold Certified Partner and developed business relationships with the City of London's top 20 leading financial institutions. BBS (Trinity, Dublin).
Job Titles:
- Director
- Member of the Board
10 years of computational geometry for machine tool software at NC Graphics, followed by 4… More » years' part time web scraping and parsing UK Parliament transcripts for TheyWorkForYou.com at mySociety whilst developing a new generation of geometric software for HSMWorks, now part of Autodesk. Julian is one of the founders of ScraperWiki. BA Pure Mathematics (Cambridge), PhD Vector Algebra
Previously a particle physicist at CERN, Peter is interested in big data and the power of technology… More » to solve problems. With his knowledge of networks and binary file formats he can extract data from anything. A generalist with a nose for programming languages, he bridges the gap between the data scientists and the platform operators at ScraperWiki. MPhys (Manchester), PhD Particle Physics
Trained in chemistry and nanotechnology, Steve is an experienced biomedical materials researcher. … More » Now, he is combining these analytical skills with a lifelong technology interest to solve scraping and data mining problems using Python tools including lxml, NLTK and scikit-learn. MChem (Oxford), MSc and PhD (Leeds).
Job Titles:
- Head of Product and Research
A technology leader, Francis created the original TortoiseCVS, which has improved version control… More » for tens of millions of people. He was a founder of TheyWorkForYou and WhatDoTheyKnow, which show the world how to use scraping and good user experience to improve democracy. BA Mathematics (Oxford).
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board
- Chairman of the Board / CEO of Canonical. World - Class Business Person Bringing Global Experience With Ubuntu More », Open Source Software, and High Growth Companies
CEO of Canonical. World-class business person bringing global experience with Ubuntu… More », open source software, and high growth companies.
Job Titles:
- Product Manager for the First Version
Job Titles:
- Product Marketing Coordinator
Tristan began his marketing career at university, building websites for small businesses and teaching… More » them how to maximise their exposure. He then co-founded award-winning tea company PHOM Tea as part of a university project, and ran point on consumer sales and marketing. BA Business and Public Relations (LJMU).
Coming to ScraperWiki from Spotify, Uwe knows how to build scalable, fault-tolerant, distributed systems.… More » He has extensive experience in enterprise applications, including risk assessments, fraud detection, bank transactions, database replication and performance optimizations, at companies like Klarna.