Donal Fellows
Senior Software Engineer at The University of Manchester
England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolDonal Fellows is a Senior Software Engineer with 25 years of experience building distributed systems, grid and cloud computing platforms, and neuromorphic computing software at The University of Manchester. He combines deep practical expertise in Java, Tcl and asynchronous hardware verification with standards work—having chaired Open Grid Forum working groups and contributed to JSDL and discovery services. As a Research Software Architect he bridges research and production, shipping resilient web and service-oriented architectures for large-scale compute environments. Donal is an active member of the Tcl community as a long-standing TIP editor, reflecting a commitment to language stewardship beyond his day job. His career blends academic rigor (Cambridge, Manchester MSc) with decades of hands-on engineering, often tackling the interoperability and scalability challenges that sit between hardware and high-level research software.
25 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Computer Science, MSc, Computer Science at The University of ManchesterMA, Computer Science, MA, Computer Science at University of Cambridge
English, Swedish, German
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Github Skills (200)
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Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
tcl2020/tcl
Feb 2018 - Jan 2019
The Tool Command Language - 2020
Contributions:153 commits in 11 months
command-line-toolcommand-linecli-application
SpiNNakerManchester/sPyNNakerVisualisers
Jul 2017 - Oct 2022
Contributions:1 release, 4 reviews, 17 PRs in 5 years 3 months
pythonvisualisationpynnopenglspinnaker
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