Gerard Capes
Software Engineer
Summary
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RockstarGerard Capes is a Research Software Engineer with 11 years of professional experience based in the United Kingdom, currently working at the University of Manchester. He specializes in bridging academic research and production-quality software, translating complex scientific requirements into maintainable code and reproducible workflows. Gerard brings a pragmatic engineering mindset honed in research environments, where collaboration with domain experts and attention to reproducibility are as important as performance. Colleagues value his ability to navigate both experimental uncertainty and software engineering best practices, delivering tools that accelerate research impact. While his public GitHub footprint is minimal, his long tenure in research software suggests deep familiarity with data-driven pipelines and scientific computing stacks.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (154)
libgit210
python10
bash10
loops10
data-management10
crystallography10
automation10
unix10
linux10
matlab10
spanish10
data-visualization10
versioning10
shell10
git10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
LightForm-group/matflow-user-documentation
Mar 2024 - Apr 2025
Notes on how to write your own workflow
Contributions:15 PRs, 58 pushes, 18 branches in 1 year
swcarpentry/matlab-novice-inflammation
Jan 2016 - Nov 2022
Programming with MATLAB
Contributions:216 commits, 125 PRs, 60 pushes in 6 years 11 months
matlabenglishcarpentriessoftware-carpentry
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