David Jenkins
Research Fellow at European Space Agency - ESA
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Jenkins is a research-focused software engineer with 10 years’ experience building real-time control systems for adaptive optics and satellite laser communications. As a Research Fellow at ESA, he develops low-level C/C++ instrument control and high-level Python interfaces for feeder-link technologies, translating cutting-edge optics research into deployable software. His background includes hands-on AO RTC development at Gemini and optical engineering at ESO, underpinned by a PhD and MPhys from Durham. Notably, he bridges physics and production engineering—optimising deterministic, low-latency systems where microsecond performance and reliability matter.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy, Physics, Doctor of Philosophy, Physics at Durham University
Github Skills (23)
pyside8
controller7
dac6
widgets6
console-application5
ttk5
viewer5
python5
console5
realtime4
process-monitor4
high-performance4
pyqt3
macos3
tui3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
david-jenkins/darc
May 2020 - Aug 2023
DARC, The Durham Adaptive optics Real-time Controller: High performance real-time control for current and ELT systems
Contributions:26 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 3 months
realtimeopticsadaptive-opticscontrollerdurham
david-jenkins/lark
Aug 2022 - Mar 2023
Python control code to run the DARC AO RTC software https://github.com/agb32/darc
Contributions:1 PR, 44 pushes, 2 branches in 6 months
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