Summary
Dom Margan is a climbing wall team leader and experienced instructor who brings 11 years of technical and research-intensive software engineering experience to sports and fitness operations. With a PhD and a background building performance-critical graph and database systems in C++, Rust, and NUMA environments, he combines rigorous system-design chops with hands-on customer service, route setting, and safety leadership. He has led research at Imperial College and Huawei on next-gen graph databases and contributed to award-nominated publications, yet now channels that analytical mindset into strategic planning, event organisation, and inclusive community-building at Edinburgh’s climbing centres. Comfortable managing teams and supervising complex operations, Dom is notable for translating low-level optimisation habits into practical, safety-first processes on the wall.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Research (MRes), Advanced Computing, Master of Research (MRes), Advanced Computing at Imperial College London
Master's Degree, Information and Communications Systems, Summa Cum Laude - Top of the Class, Master's Degree, Information and Communications Systems, Summa Cum Laude - Top of the Class at Faculty of Informatics and Digital Technologies – FIDIT Rijeka
Croatian, English