Brian Maher
Principal Research Infrastructure Developer at UCL Advanced Research Computing (ARC)
England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolBrian Maher is a Principal Research Infrastructure Developer with 12 years of experience bridging software engineering and infrastructure for academic research, currently leading infrastructure efforts at UCL's Advanced Research Computing Centre. He has deep expertise modernising and securing legacy systems, building private cloud platforms, and automating large server estates using tools like Terraform, Ansible, OpenStack and CI/CD pipelines. Previously he delivered research software, data discovery tools and managed VMware and a wide stack of services at King's Digital Lab, routinely performing pre-grant technical feasibility and rapid incident response. Brian combines hands-on hardware troubleshooting with infrastructure-as-code practices, reducing technical debt while enabling reproducible research computing. He holds an MSc in Bioinformatics and a BSc in Computer Science, giving him strong domain empathy for research workflows as well as systems engineering. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic, security-focused modernisation that keeps complex research services running and evolving.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Sydney RussellMaster of Science (M.Sc.) Bioinformatics, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Bioinformatics at King's College London
Github Skills (48)
omeka10
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linked-data9
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documentation9
django8
php8
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cms8
home-assistant8
letsencrypt8
project-list7
csharp7
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
kingsdigitallab/mmc-django
Mar 2017 - Mar 2022
Repository for Mozart and Material Culture Project
Contributions:8 PRs, 140 pushes, 8 branches in 5 years
pythonmozartmojomusiccreative-commons
kingsdigitallab/django-bare-bones
Mar 2017 - Aug 2022
Start up configuration for KDL Django based projects.
Contributions:100 commits, 11 PRs, 95 pushes in 5 years 6 months
django
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