I'm a scientist working at GitHub, I lead GitHub's engagement with the research community. This breaks down into:

• The github/science program
• Helping facilitate research about GitHub, open source and knowledge creation through better use of our data products

A lapsed academic with a passion for new models of scientific collaboration, I've used big telescopes to study dust in space, built sequencing pipelines in Cambridge and have engaged millions of people in online citizen science by co-founding the Zooniverse.

I've been known to publish the odd paper and have also accidentally built a couple of academic journals in my time too...