Hire Me


I’m a freelance designer, web developer and data analyst with a particular interest in open data, APIs, mashups and maps. I’m based in Sutton in south London.

I write about government transparency and open data for Local Government Chronicle and my writing on Facebook and internet freedom is featured in the Guardian book Facebook: The rise of a social media giant.

Here’s my portfolio.

I’m here to apply good design to getting people the information they need, when they need it, in a way that they can understand.

You can hire me to:

  • design and build web applications
  • analyse and visualise data
  • help you to find suitable data for your project
  • advise you on how to make your organisation’s information and data available and useful internally and externally

Technical Skills

  • HTML and CSS
  • Haml and Sass
  • JavaScript (including jQuery, Google Maps API)
  • Ruby (including Rails and Sinatra)
  • PHP (including WordPress themes and plugins)
  • sqlite, MySQL and Postgresql
  • XML, RSS
  • REST and SOAP APIs
  • Yahoo! Pipes and YQL
  • Google Earth and KML
  • Git, Subversion, CVS
  • Arduino and physical computing

Contact Me

You can contact me at adrian@adrianshort.co.uk and follow me on Twitter.

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