Iain Stenson
Research Software Engineer at The Alan Turing Institute
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolIain Stenson is a Research Software Engineer with nine years of experience building data-driven tools and reproducible research software across UK academia and national institutes. He currently splits his time between The Alan Turing Institute and Queen Mary University of London, bringing practical software engineering to interdisciplinary research projects. His background includes six years at Imperial College and early commercial development experience at Epitiro, giving him a strong mix of research, analysis and production-grade coding. Trained as a physicist at the University of Bath, he applies a quantitative mindset to software design, testing, and data pipelines. Colleagues value his ability to translate academic problems into maintainable code and deployable workflows that accelerate research impact. He often operates at the intersection of software best practices and cutting-edge research needs, quietly improving reproducibility and engineering standards in research teams.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Physics, 2:1, Bachelor’s Degree, Physics, 2:1 at University of Bath
Github Skills (200)
blast10
python10
command-line-interface10
azure-cli10
gtk10
genomics10
genomics-visualization10
qt10
formatter10
ncbi10
azure10
black-formatter10
csv-parser10
sequencing10
syntax-highlighting10
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
alan-turing-institute/rctab-api
Aug 2023 - Apr 2025
RCTab web app
Contributions:10 releases, 10 reviews, 47 PRs in 1 year 8 months
hut23hut23-rcp
Iain-S/HiFiDrawJS
Jul 2018 - Oct 2021
Simple HiFi drawing tool
Contributions:3 releases, 58 commits, 1 PR in 3 years 3 months
hifidrawing
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