David Hempston
Principal Research Infrastructure Engineer at Imperial College London
Greater Southampton Area United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Hempston is a Principal Research Infrastructure Engineer with over a decade of experience building and operating large-scale HPC/HTC environments, currently leading research infrastructure at Imperial College London. He combines deep systems expertise—GPFS/Spectrum Scale, Slurm/PBS, InfiniBand, Singularity/Docker, Ansible and CI/CD—with hands-on Python data-science and researcher-facing support to bridge complex research needs and production operations. His background as a physicist and PhD experimentalist gives him uncommon fluency in instrument interfacing, large-data analysis and simulation workflows, enabling pragmatic solutions for data acquisition and compute-intensive experiments. Notable past roles include managing multi-million-pound supercomputing clusters at Southampton (32k+ cores, 2.2PB storage) and developing tailored user environments like JupyterHub for research workflows. Colleagues value him for translating technical detail into clear plans and for a precision-oriented mindset rooted in early CNC and lab work.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Mphys, Physics, First Class (Hons), Mphys, Physics, First Class (Hons) at University of Southampton
Japanese
Github Skills (44)
monitoring9
data-visualization8
genomics8
elasticsearch8
database8
react8
prometheus8
grafana8
time-series8
analytics8
visualize8
dashboard8
visualization8
bioinformatics8
mysql8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ImperialCollegeLondon/icl-rcs-user-guide
Feb 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:36 reviews, 24 PRs, 47 pushes in 1 year 1 month
ImperialCollegeLondon/rcs-node-config
Mar 2022 - Jul 2024
Contributions:2 reviews, 4 PRs, 66 pushes in 2 years 4 months
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