Christopher Gutteridge

Christopher Gutteridge is a Senior Software Engineer (Research) at the University of Southampton's Department of Electronics and Computer Science. He has been with the university since 1997, initially as a webmaster and later leading critical academic infrastructure projects. His work focuses on open data initiatives, software development, and innovative applications like Minecraft integration with academic systems.

Key contributions include developing EPrints 2.0/3.0 (pioneering open access software), establishing the University's open data service, and creating systems such as all.soton for mailing lists and CAPE for static website generation. He has been recognized with awards including the THE Outstanding ICT Initiative (2012) and the Jason Farradane Award (2017).

His research interests span open data standards, data hygiene, transportation technology, and semantic web applications. Notable projects include QR code-based bus arrival systems and linked data provenance tracing.