David Deepwell
Senior Specialist at University of Calgary
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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Top SchoolDavid Deepwell is a Senior Specialist and seasoned Python developer with 11 years of experience building test-driven, production-ready software for research and high-performance computing environments. Based in Calgary, he leads research software development at the University of Calgary, designing data management platforms and automated pipelines that enable research at scale across Canadian sites. He has hands-on cloud and DevOps expertise—authoring CI pipelines, Ansible automation, AWS processing using EC2/SQS/S3, and Airflow workflows—to reliably move and process large datasets. His background as a PhD-trained computational scientist informs pragmatic solutions that bridge numerical modelling, data engineering, and reproducible research practices. Notably, he has analyzed multi-terabyte datasets and translated academic insight into deployable systems, publishing and presenting his work internationally.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Honours First Class, Mathematical Physics, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Honours First Class, Mathematical Physics at Simon Fraser UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Applied Mathematics - Fluid Mechanics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Applied Mathematics - Fluid Mechanics at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (69)
python10
automation10
data-storage10
commit-message10
conventions10
scheduler9
pipeline9
testing9
git-annex9
linter9
mlops9
etl9
orchestration9
infrastructure9
machine-learning9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ddeepwell/SPINSmatlab
Jul 2015 - Oct 2021
Project for plotting and analyzing SPINS outputs in matlab
Contributions:2 reviews, 2 PRs, 208 pushes in 6 years 3 months
matlab
HartharnSam/SPINSmatlabCopy
Jul 2015 - Oct 2021
Contributions:304 commits in 6 years 3 months
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