Diego Álvarez
Head Of Research Software Engineering at Software Sustainability Institute
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolDiego Álvarez is Head of Research Software Engineering at Imperial College London with 11 years of experience bridging experimental semiconductor research and scientific software development. He combines deep expertise in optoelectronic materials, quantum nanostructures and photovoltaic device characterization with hands-on lab leadership, having designed optical setups, managed spectroscopy labs, and trained users in safety and measurement techniques. A seasoned developer in Python and Fortran, he automates measurements, builds analysis pipelines, and contributes to notable open-source projects such as PyBaMM, improving code quality and CLI usability. His background in MBE growth, nanofabrication and advanced spectroscopy informs pragmatic software solutions that tightly couple modelling (Nextnano, SPICE) with lab hardware. As a Software Sustainability Institute Fellow and Higher Education Academy Associate Fellow, he mentors students and leads teams to make research reproducible and maintainable. Colleagues value his rare combination of device-level intuition and release-engineering discipline that improves both experiments and codebases.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Licenciatura, Ciencias físicas, Licenciatura, Ciencias físicas at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (16)
command-line-interface10
python10
cli10
command-line10
testing9
documentation9
git8
version-control8
continuous-integration7
cin7
python-sphinx6
macos6
latex6
macos-high-sierra6
restructuredtext6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
pybamm-team/PyBaMM
Feb 2020 - Nov 2020
Fast and flexible physics-based battery models in Python
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Release Engineer
Back-end Developer & Release EngineerContributions:2 reviews, 71 commits, 7 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Diego focused on improving code quality and maintainability by addressing doctest failures and sorting CLI parameters, indicating a focus on ensuring correct output and improving the user interface. The user also contributed to the overall structure and functionality by merging and resolving conflicts related to actions and updating several notebooks. The user has touched various files, indicating a wide-reaching familiarity with the project.
chemical-engineeringphysicspower-systemspythonbattery
ImperialCollegeLondon/R2T2
Oct 2019 - Sep 2020
Research References Tracking Tool
Contributions:7 reviews, 97 commits, 40 PRs in 10 months
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