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Arfon Smith Location
Edinburgh, GB
Arfon Smith Work
2025 -now Senior Fellow @
2016 -now Founder and Editor in Chief @
2019 -2025 Advisory Board Member @
2020 -2025 Director of Product – AI (GitHub Copilot) @
2016 -2020 Head of Data Science @
2013 -2016 Scientist and Program Manager: Open Source Data @
2011 -2013 Director @
2008 -2013 Co-founder and Technical Lead, Zooniverse @
Arfon Smith Education
University of Nottingham
PhD, Molecular Astrophysics
University of Oxford
Astrophysics
The University of Sheffield
BSc Hons, Chemistry
Arfon Smith Skills
Product Leadership
Large Language Models (LLM)
Generative AI Tools
Data Governance
Data Privacy
Responsible AI
Data Analytics
Open-Source Software
Executive Leadership
Ruby on Rails
Agile Methodologies
MySQL
CSS
Testing
High Performance Computing
Bioinformatics
Ruby
Software Development
JavaScript
Data Mining
Science
ASP.NET
C
Hub
Microsoft Office
Perl
Scientific Computing
TDD
Shell
LaTeX
CoffeeScript
Java
Open Source
Python
HTML
Authlogic
Tex
Web Services
HAProxy
Load Balancing
BDD
Crowdsourcing
PHP
Citizen Science
Strategic Planning
Authentication
Test Driven Development
C#
Load
Objective J
Agile Project Management
Community Development
Physics
Databases
Machine Learning
Data Science
MongoDB
Management
R
Version Control
Git
AMI
Amazon EC2
Arfon Smith Summary
Arfon Smith, based in Edinburgh, GB, is currently a Senior Fellow at Schmidt Sciences. Arfon Smith brings experience from previous roles at Journal of Open Source Software, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, GitHub and Space Telescope Science Institute. Arfon Smith holds a PhD, Molecular Astrophysics @ University of Nottingham. With a robust skill set that includes Product Leadership, Large Language Models (LLM), Generative AI Tools, Data Governance, Data Privacy and more. Arfon Smith has 2 emails on RocketReach.
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