Bryan Gillis
Research Software Engineer at University of Southampton
Livingston, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolBryan Gillis is a research software engineer and astrophysicist with 10 years post-PhD experience building, validating, and operating large-scale scientific codebases for the Euclid Space Telescope mission. He combines deep domain expertise in weak lensing and cluster computing with practical strengths in C/C++ and Python to design robust pipelines, automated tests, and deployment workflows that have repeatedly rescued project timelines. Comfortable both as an autonomous contributor and as a coordinator of multi-developer efforts, he has led major validation programmes, produced technical notes and peer-reviewed papers, and consolidated disparate code into reliable production pipelines. Bryan also translates complex science for broader audiences—he’s a repeat expert guest on a popular podcast and creator of dozens of edutainment videos—while teaching peers through tutorials and convenience tools. Self-taught in game development and audio/video production, he brings uncommon creativity to engineering problems and a knack for spotting and filling unseen project gaps. Based in Livingston, Scotland, he now applies this blend of research rigor, software engineering, and communication at the University of Southampton.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Astrophysics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Astrophysics at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (27)
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astronomy10
des10
galaxy10
robocup10
modular9
python9
gdscript9
documentation8
science8
game-development8
orbital-mechanics8
core-library8
game-engine7
astrophysics7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
PSDI-UK/psdi-common-style
Nov 2024 - Apr 2025
Common UI and style elements for PSDI projects with a public interface
Contributions:19 releases, 3 reviews, 80 PRs in 4 months
brgillis/SHE_SIM_galaxy_generation
May 2024 - May 2024
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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