Chris Osborne
Research Software Engineer at University of Strathclyde
Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolChris Osborne is a Research Software Engineer and PhD-trained astrophysicist with 11 years of experience building clean, high-performance scientific software and applying machine learning to challenging inverse problems. Based in Glasgow, he combines deep expertise in radiative transfer and numerical modelling with a strong focus on expressive APIs and optimisation, having developed tools like the Lightweaver framework for solar spectroscopy. He has supported academic software engineering best practices across universities, taught and mentored students in Python-based astronomy workflows, and led open-source package development to make ML research more reproducible. Multilingual and methodical, Chris excels at turning slow, physics-heavy processes into efficient, well-documented code that researchers can actually use.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Baccalaureat Série Scientifique, 18.3/20, Baccalaureat Série Scientifique, 18.3/20 at Lycée Guez de Balzac, Angoulême, FranceBSc Hons, Theoretical Physics, 1st Class, BSc Hons, Theoretical Physics, 1st Class at University of Glasgow
English, French, German
Github Skills (116)
python10
image-viewer10
abstraction10
backend10
rendering10
libtorch10
gles9
core-library9
graphic9
opengl9
engine9
numba9
astronomy9
sdl9
parallel9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
Goobley/Lightweaver
Sep 2019 - Nov 2022
For the investigation of NLTE glowy stuff. A python framework for constructing solar NLTE radiative transfer simulations in one- and two-dimensional geometries, with an optimised C++ backend.
Contributions:49 releases, 1 review, 369 commits in 3 years 1 month
backendcpppythonradiative-transfernlte
Goobley/MsLightweaver
Dec 2019 - Nov 2022
Tools for doing MsRadyn-style runs with Lightweaver
Contributions:3 releases, 2 PRs, 49 pushes in 2 years 11 months
trinitycoreazerothcorededicated-serverrunsmanual
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