Jack Leland
Senior Research Software Engineer at University of Oxford
Oxford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJack Leland is a Senior Research Software Engineer based in Oxford with nine years’ experience applying high-performance scientific computing to fusion and environmental data. He completed a PhD in Computational Plasma Physics and used Particle-in-Cell codes to simulate Langmuir probes on the MAST-Upgrade tokamak, bridging detailed physics modelling with practical diagnostics analysis. After developing tape storage and large-data tooling at CEDA, he now supports research software engineering at the University of Oxford, combining HPC, Python data analysis, and reproducible research practices. Known for translating complex plasma simulations into actionable insights, he brings both academic depth and production-oriented software experience to interdisciplinary science teams.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computational Plasma Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computational Plasma Physics at University of LiverpoolUniversity College London
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Github Skills (18)
forecast10
near9
aix7
database6
tarball6
sql6
storage6
distributed-file-system5
probe5
python5
scientific-computing4
logging3
batch3
user-interface2
resource-management2
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
jackleland/autospice
Nov 2019 - Aug 2024
Tool for submitting batch jobs to clusters, with automatic logging and parameter scan submission
Contributions:18 PRs, 46 pushes, 15 branches in 4 years 9 months
scanbatchclustersloggingparameter
jackleland/flopter
Dec 2019 - Jun 2021
Fitting and plotting workflow tools for analysing Langmuir probe data from a variety of sources
Contributions:1 release, 69 commits, 10 PRs in 1 year 5 months
pythonprobefittingplottingvariety
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