I have been part of many different organisations involved in agricultural research from academia in the US and Australia, an international NGO (IRRI) to the state government of Western Australia. My interests and expertise include modelling, botanical epidemiology, agronomy, biometry and programming with a strong ethos of open science and reproducible research. My work has resulted in a country-wide crop monitoring system that incorporates ground-based observations with satellite data and a new model that described what drives adaptation in plant pathogen populations as well as several open-source research tools.