Harry Scholes
Staff Engineer at Pinecone
Lisbon, Portugal
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Top SchoolHarry Scholes is a Staff Engineer based in Lisbon with 10 years of experience designing and shipping scalable, low-latency distributed systems—primarily implemented in Rust—now leading architecture and delivery at Pinecone. His background blends deep academic training in bioinformatics and machine learning (PhD, UCL; MSc Imperial; MBiochem Oxford) with practical backend engineering across multiple startups and research institutions. He contributes to prominent open-source projects, improving core data structure implementations and documentation in the Julia ecosystem, showing an attention to both performance and developer experience. Comfortable moving between hands-on coding, test automation, and technical writing, he consistently reduces system complexity while improving observability and correctness. A notable non-obvious strength is his ability to translate research-grade algorithmic thinking into production-grade systems that operate at scale.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
MBiochem, Biochemistry, MBiochem, Biochemistry at University of OxfordMSc, Bioinformatics & Machine Learning, MSc, Bioinformatics & Machine Learning at Imperial College LondonUniversity College London
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Github Skills (22)
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documentation10
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networkx9
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Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
JuliaCollections/DataStructures.jl
Jul 2019 - Apr 2020
Julia implementation of Data structures
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:12 commits, 8 PRs, 12 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:Harry implemented the `sizehint!` function for multiple heap data structures, adding optimization capabilities. They also wrote tests for the binary heap, min-max heap, and mutable binary heap implementations to ensure correct functionality. Furthermore, the user fixed docstrings and deprecated the `deque` constructor, which enhanced the codebase. Finally, the user added a test for deprecated constructors.
data-structuresimplementation-of-data-structuresdatastructuresjulia
JuliaLang/julia
Sep 2018 - Jun 2020
The Julia Programming Language
Role in this project:Technical Writer / Documentation Specialist
Technical Writer / Documentation SpecialistContributions:8 commits, 7 PRs, 10 comments in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Harry primarily focused on improving the documentation within the Julia programming language repository. Their commits addressed minor typos in docstrings, added examples, and updated documentation for specific functions and features, such as `rand(n)`, `replace`, and `@deprecate`. The user contributed to clarifying the usage and functionality of different components of the Julia language, improving the overall readability and usability of the documentation.
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