Alex Meakins
Entrepreneur In Residence at Luffy AI
Vale of White Horse, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolAlex Meakins is a founder and scientist-engineer with 11 years of experience building AI-driven products and research software for high-stakes science environments. As Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer at Luffy AI (and previously CTO), he bridges deep technical leadership with hands-on development, turning fusion-grade data challenges into deployable analytics and infrastructure. His background includes research software engineering for JET at the UK Atomic Energy Authority and experimental fusion physics on MAST, giving him rare domain knowledge in experimental diagnostics, data pipelines and algorithm development. An Imperial College PhD in Fusion and Plasma Physics underpins a pragmatic approach to complex systems, and he contributes to widely used open-source tooling—helping improve Cython’s language docs to make low-level Python/C interop clearer. Based in the Vale of White Horse, he combines startup grit with a scientist’s rigor and a focus on reproducible, production-ready research software.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Fusion and Plasma Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Fusion and Plasma Physics at Imperial College London
Github Skills (6)
c1710
c1110
cython10
documentation10
python7
cpp5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
cython/cython
Aug 2018 - May 2019
The most widely used Python to C compiler
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:8 commits, 2 PRs, 10 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to the project's documentation, focusing on the "language_basics.rst" file within the documentation directory. Their contributions involved adding documentation for C tuples, removing duplicated text, correcting language and markup, and refining details. This work aimed to improve the clarity, accuracy, and completeness of the user guide for the Cython language.
cpython-extensionscpppythonpython-bindingsbig-data
raysect/source
Oct 2014 - Sep 2022
The main source repository for the Raysect project.
Contributions:18 releases, 17 reviews, 1209 commits in 8 years
opticspythonsciencescientific-computingframework
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