Aleksandra Nenadic
Research Software Training Lead at Software Sustainability Institute
Stevenage, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAleksandra Nenadic is a research software and training leader with over 11 years’ experience helping researchers adopt open data and reproducible software practices, currently heading training at the Software Sustainability Institute. She combines deep academic roots—a PhD in computer science and a long research software engineering career at the University of Manchester—with hands-on curriculum development and instructor training for The Carpentries. Aleksandra has moved between technical product management, senior RSE roles, and now strategic training leadership, giving her a rare view across research, tooling, and pedagogy. She contributes to notable community projects like the Carpentries workshop template as a full-stack developer, improving usability and documentation for widely used teaching material. Known for clarifying complex workflows into teachable lessons, she also trains other instructors and lesson developers, scaling impact beyond individual projects. Based in Stevenage, UK, she blends rigorous academic thinking with practical, community-focused open-source work.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computer science, PhD, Computer science at The University of ManchesterInstructor Trainer, Instructor Trainer at The CarpentriesBachelor's Degree, Mathematics and Computer Science, 1st class (Hons), Bachelor's Degree, Mathematics and Computer Science, 1st class (Hons) at University of Belgrade
Github Skills (5)
html10
templater10
template-engine10
yaml10
javascript7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
carpentries/workshop-template
Sep 2016 - Jul 2020
The Carpentries Workshop Template
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:21 commits, 6 PRs, 14 comments in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Aleksandra primarily worked on improving the workshop template's HTML and configuration files. Their contributions included refining the presentation of contact information, fixing a blog post link, and rewording some content for clarity. They also corrected documentation and tests related to the `contact` parameter and switched to American spelling.
templatecarpentries-infrastructureworkshopjstreetemplates
EVERSE-ResearchSoftware/RSQKit
Mar 2024 - Apr 2025
Research Software Quality Kit materials
Contributions:163 reviews, 152 PRs, 446 pushes in 1 year
documenationresearch-softwareresearch-software-engineer
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