Ian Grant
HPC Engineer at Jump Trading Group
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolIan Grant is an HPC Engineer with 12 years of experience building and operating high-performance and cloud-native compute platforms for scientific and clinical workloads. His career spans enzyme catalysis simulations and genome-scale sequencing pipelines, blending deep computational science (PhD in theoretical chemistry) with pragmatic systems engineering. He has led automation, bare-metal provisioning and GitOps-driven cloud architectures for organisations including Genomics England, King’s College London and now Jump Trading Group. Ian is comfortable across traditional HPC, public cloud and edge datacentre environments, having integrated Nanopore sequencer streaming into cloud genomic intake systems. Colleagues rely on his mix of research-grade numerical computing experience and production-focused infrastructure skills to translate complex scientific requirements into reliable, scalable platforms. Based in Cambridge, he often brings techniques from computational chemistry—such as careful performance tuning and parallelisation—into large-scale infrastructure design.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Theoretical Chemistry, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Theoretical Chemistry at University of Bristol
Github Skills (200)
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Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
imgrant/node-calver
Jun 2023 - Feb 2025
The calver parser for node. 📆 🚀
Contributions:1 release, 6 PRs, 10 pushes in 1 year 8 months
imgrant/fit2tcx
Jul 2015 - Jul 2016
Contributions:3 releases, 19 commits, 18 pushes in 1 year
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