Christine Stawitz
Senior Research Software Engineer And Manager at University of Birmingham
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolChristine Stawitz is a Senior Research Software Engineer and manager with 11 years of experience bridging computational software and fisheries science, now leading research software efforts at the University of Birmingham. Her career blends hands-on modeling and software development—from individual-based climate impact models for Alaskan snow crab to fisheries stock assessment tooling at NOAA—with earlier Microsoft product design and .NET development experience. She holds a PhD from the University of Washington where her doctoral work quantified growth and size variation in Pacific groundfish, providing deep domain expertise that informs robust, reproducible research software. Known for turning complex ecological models into production-ready analysis pipelines, she combines scientific rigor with practical engineering and team leadership across academia and government.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, QERM, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, QERM at University of WashingtonB.S., Systems Engineering, Computer Science, B.S., Systems Engineering, Computer Science at University of Virginia
Github Skills (55)
unconf10
r-package10
r9
stock9
simulation9
traits9
api8
quantile8
synthesis8
solidworks8
hierarchical8
scenarios7
temporal7
origami7
ecology7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
cstawitz/roomba
May 2018 - Jul 2021
General purpose API response tidier
Contributions:41 commits, 2 PRs, 27 pushes in 3 years 2 months
apiapi-responsegeneral-purposepurposer
cstawitz/codloins
Jan 2015 - Sep 2016
Contributions:42 commits, 2 PRs, 29 pushes in 1 year 8 months
impacts
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