Carlos Gavidia-calderon
Senior Research Software Engineer at The Open University
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolCarlos Gavidia-calderon is a Senior Research Software Engineer at the Alan Turing Institute with 14 years of experience bridging systems engineering and research-driven software development. He combines deep academic training—a PhD from UCL and a master's from PUCP—with hands-on roles from consultancy at ThoughtWorks to systems engineering in Peru, demonstrating fluency across production systems, machine learning pipelines, and research software best practices. At the Turing Institute he progressed from Research Software Engineer to senior technical lead, while also advising and collaborating with The Open University, showing a knack for translating research into robust, reusable tooling. He has taught and supervised across universities in Peru and the UK, bringing pedagogical rigor to code quality, reproducibility, and collaborator onboarding. Colleagues value his systems-minded approach: he thinks like an engineer but prioritizes reproducible research outcomes. Fluent in both industry delivery and academic inquiry, he often operates where long-lived infrastructure meets experimental science.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Systems Engineering, Bachelor's degree Systems Engineering at National University of EngineeringMaster's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Pontificia Universidad Católica del PerúUniversity College London
English, Spanish, French
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Github Skills (66)
optimization10
java10
image-segmentation10
algorithms10
game-theory10
webservice10
antcolony10
face9
training-data9
facial-expression-recognition9
flying9
jakartaee9
emotion-analysis9
jsp9
github-api8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
cptanalatriste/aco-acs-tsp
Apr 2016 - Jun 2022
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 3 months
cptanalatriste/prioritisation-game-model
Jul 2016 - Jun 2020
Game-theoretic tools for task prioritisation process modelling.
Contributions:2 PRs, 164 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years
modelling
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