I'm a Research Software Engineer based at the UK's National Oceanography Centre. My research interests include embedded computing, computer vision and bioinformatics. I'm currently working on real-time organism identification and tracking for autonomous undersea vehicles, alongside shipboard systems for rapid, automated plankton identification.
Open source projects:
github.com/owoalexContact:
[email protected]Photo by Piotr - Aberystwyth South Beach - CC-BY 4.0
2025-06-27 Publishing Environmental Data APIs for use in AI workflows: recommendations and demonstrators of a standard approach within the NERC Environmental Data Service
nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/539708My history as a software engineer is a bit of a mess! Here are a few things that are still live or in use today:
A URL lengthener that produces URLs consisting of a randomly generated sentence.
dumburls.comAn open source case management system with built-in data analytics for social science researchers.
github.com/auxilium-software/auxiliumAll content on this site is available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence except where otherwise stated.
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