Our Team Members

GoSmarter is led by co-founders Ruth Kearney and Steph Locke and a bunch of talented developers.

Learn more about our team below.

Engineers, scientists, and people who get things done

GoSmarter’s team is built around people who care about the craft of software engineering, the rigour of data science, and the practical reality of manufacturing. We are based primarily in Cardiff and Dublin, with team members across the UK and Ireland.

Our founders — Ruth Kearney and Steph Locke — bring together commercial and technical leadership in AI and manufacturing. Ruth leads on product and commercial strategy, with deep experience in the Irish and UK manufacturing markets. Steph is a recognised data science leader who has been shaping AI policy at European level and building practical AI tools for over a decade.

The engineering team builds across cloud infrastructure, web applications, and AI models. Our data science function works on the specific challenges of manufacturing data: unstructured documents, variable-quality sensor data, and the domain knowledge required to build models that production teams can trust.

Our culture

We hire people who take their work seriously without taking themselves too seriously. We work collaboratively across disciplines — engineers work closely with data scientists, who work closely with customer success, who work closely with the manufacturers actually using the product. The feedback loop is short and the decisions that get made are better for it.

We are a small team, which means you can see the impact of your work quickly. It also means we do not have layers of management between a good idea and its implementation. If you spot something that could be better — in the product, in the process, or in the code — you are encouraged to say so and to help fix it.

Diversity and inclusion

We are committed to building a team that reflects the breadth of talent available, not just the talent that looks like the tech sector’s historical default. We have team members from Wales, Ireland, England, and beyond; from humanities and science backgrounds; at different career stages. We believe diverse teams build better products, and we work actively to maintain an environment where everyone can contribute at their best.