Our Team Members

GoSmarter’s team cares about the craft of software engineering, the rigour of data science, and the practical reality of manufacturing. We’re based mainly in Cardiff and Dublin, with team members across the UK and Ireland.

We sell globally, with a strong presence in the UK and Ireland. We’re expanding fastest in India and the Netherlands, with the US next. Our distributor, Source Code Control, supports Indian customers from Delhi and Bangalore.

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 board brings experience from Europe, India and the US, and from some of the most heavily regulated industries in the world.

• Tony Woods — Board Advisor. Founder and Chief Executive of Midland Steel. He grew a family rebar firm into an international business across Ireland, the UK, the US and Scandinavia.
• Wendy Owen — Board Advisor. She has 35+ years of safety and compliance work in nuclear, defence, rail, aerospace and automotive.
• Gourav Tandon — Board Observer and Advisor. He built Source Code Control’s India operations and specialises in software supply chain security.

They challenge how we build GoSmarter, so manufacturers get a platform that stands up to audit, scale and scrutiny.

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.