Professional summary
Jo Walsh joined UKCEH in early 2024 to help establish a new Research Software Engineering group working on reusable, reproducible systems for multi-disciplinary environmental science.
Jo's software development and infrastructure engineering career began in the early days of the World Wide Web. Their tech trajectory went from content management through the semantic web to Geographic Information Systems, data science and most recently deep learning and computer vision for geographic applications.
Jo served on the founding boards of the Open Knowledge Foundation and Open Source Geospatial Foundation, and remains a board member of the Software Underground Society, which provides community and infrastructure support for free and open source projects in the geosciences.