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 (168)
sympy10
image-viewer10
abstraction10
rendering10
libtorch10
viewer10
image10
gles9
core-library9
orbital-mechanics9
cluster-computing9
opengl9
api9
engine9
astrology9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Goobley/radynpy
Sep 2018 - Mar 2021
Contributions:1 release, 10 commits, 4 PRs in 2 years 6 months
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
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