Aaron Jackson
Senior Research Infrastructure Engineer at Health Informatics Centre (HIC) - University of Dundee
Nottingham, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAaron Jackson is a Senior Research Infrastructure Engineer with 13 years' experience building and operating hybrid on-premise and cloud research platforms, currently running trusted, ISO 27001-compliant environments at the Health Informatics Centre. He automates complex deployments with Podman, Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible and GitHub Actions, applies SRE practices to reduce toil and improve observability, and has led teams as an interim lead. With a PhD in Computer Science and a background in computer vision research he has productionised deep learning models, maintained GPU clusters for 50+ researchers using Slurm and ZFS, and created CI-driven virtualised testing for entire cluster deployments. An active open-source contributor, he improved the VRN volumetric CNN project to make 3D face reconstruction tooling more usable and portable (including CPU support and visualization fixes). Based in Nottingham, he combines research-grade rigor with practical infrastructure engineering and a knack for turning academic projects into reliable, reusable services.
13 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, First, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, First at Bangor UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of NottinghamA Levels + Cisco CCNA, A Levels + Cisco CCNA at Coleg Cambria
Github Skills (9)
computer-vision10
deep-learning10
python10
3d10
faster-rcnn9
image-processing9
machine-learning9
mask-rcnn9
cuda8
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
AaronJackson/vrn
Jun 2017 - Sep 2021
:man: Code for "Large Pose 3D Face Reconstruction from a Single Image via Direct Volumetric CNN Regression"
Role in this project:
ML Engineer
ML EngineerContributions:19 commits, 2 PRs, 32 pushes in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Aaron primarily focused on improving the functionality and usability of the VRN (Volumetric CNN Regression) project. They fixed issues related to face alignment scripts, added the ability to use the CPU for processing (enhancing flexibility), and updated model download links, making the project more accessible and robust. The user also converted raw data to an obj file for visualization and corrected Z-axis scaling in the volume rendering code.
3dcomputervisionreconstructionfacetorch7
AaronJackson/2.11BSD-Action
Oct 2021 - Jul 2022
A GitHub Action for 2.11BSD continuous integration testing running in an emulated PDP-11 (simh)
Contributions:4 releases, 1 review, 22 commits in 8 months
continuous-integrationpdptesting211bsdpdp-11
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