Edward Parkinson
Senior HPC Research Software Engineer at University of Southampton
Wargrave, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolEdward Parkinson is a Senior HPC Research Software Engineer with a decade of scientific and engineering experience, currently accelerating large-scale research applications at the University of Southampton. He combines a PhD in Computational Astrophysics with practical expertise in CUDA, MPI, OpenMP and multithreading to refactor and optimize compute-heavy codes for production research workflows. Comfortable spanning research and software engineering, he designs maintainable, high-performance solutions that balance algorithmic fidelity with pragmatic deployment in academic HPC environments. A recovering computational astrophysicist, he brings domain insight into scientific modelling (e.g., tidal disruption event emission) that informs performance trade-offs often missed by generalist engineers.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computational Astrophysics, Pass, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computational Astrophysics, Pass at University of SouthamptonMaster of Physics, Physics with Astrophysics, First Class with Honours, Master of Physics, Physics with Astrophysics, First Class with Honours at University of Kent
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
saultyevil/atomix
Sep 2019 - Feb 2024
Semi-useful utility for querying the atomic data files in Python.
Contributions:2 PRs, 72 pushes, 6 branches in 4 years 5 months
pythonqueryingsemidata-filespython3
saultyevil/MCRT
Feb 2018 - Feb 2024
Contributions:43 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years
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