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Marcus Baw is a doctor, a clinical informatician, and a maker. He is an outspoken advocate of open source healthcare computing, and is one of the founding directors of https://twitter.com/open_health_hub” target=”_blank”>@open_health_hub, a CIC working towards better use of open source in the NHS and providing free public Code Custodianship for small organisations that do not want to set up their own foundation for code-ownership.

He is a highly active member of the NHS Hack Day community, and taught himself to code Ruby after seeing what great stuff you can do with code at his first NHS Hack Day. He likes explaining Developer stuff to Doctors, and Doctor stuff to Developers, acting as a 'bridge' between the two professional groups. He is on the committee of the RCGP Health Informatics Group.

Clinically he's a locum GP in the North West of England and is still working nearly full time seeing patients, which definitely helps with understanding clinical perspectives on tech and software.

In 2014 he founded Leigh Hackspace, a new makerspace. He lives on a smallholding in Lancashire with his wife, two children, and a load of chickens.