Andy Turner
Research Software Engineer at University of Leeds
Leeds, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAndy Turner is a Research Software Engineer with 14 years of experience specialising in computational research support, reproducible workflows and HPC-driven performance optimisation. Based in Leeds, he has a long track record at the University of Leeds—moving from computational geography and teaching to a central Research Computing role that combines consultancy, training and sustainable software practices. He helps researchers scale and automate analyses across grid and cloud environments, while promoting reproducibility and robust documentation. Comfortable bridging academic research and production compute, he also brings practical GIS and mathematical grounding from an MA (Distinction) and a BA in Geography and Mathematics. Notably, his work extends to high-performance computing collaborations at EPCC, reflecting hands-on experience with large-scale scientific compute environments.
14 years of coding experience
Master of Arts - MA, Geographical Information Systems, Distinction, Master of Arts - MA, Geographical Information Systems, Distinction at University of Leeds
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Github Skills (55)
alpha10
docker10
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cluster-computing10
placement10
hpc-applications10
singularity9
infiniband9
mpi9
high-performance9
ssh8
database8
regression8
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Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
ARCHER2-HPC/archer2-docs
Nov 2019 - Jan 2023
Repository for ARCHER2 documentation
Contributions:2 releases, 154 reviews, 517 commits in 3 years 2 months
EPCCed/cirrus-docs
Sep 2016 - Jan 2023
Contributions:1 release, 16 reviews, 353 commits in 6 years 5 months
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