James Womack
AI Supercomputing Infrastructure Specialist at Bristol Centre for Supercomputing (BriCS)
Bristol, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJames Womack is an AI Supercomputing Infrastructure Engineer with a decade of experience building and operating high-performance computing platforms for research at the University of Bristol, including the Isambard-AI and Isambard 3 supercomputers. Trained as a computational chemist (PhD), he blends deep scientific programming expertise in C/C++, Fortran and Python with practical skills in parallel programming, Linux systems and research software engineering to scale demanding simulations. His career spans research software development, method implementation for large-scale quantum chemistry, and hands-on RSE support—evidence of both domain depth and a commitment to enabling others’ research. Known for translating complex computational science needs into robust, scalable infrastructure, he also contributes to university-wide consulting services that improve research software quality and reproducibility.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Torquay Boys' Grammar SchoolDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) Theoretical and computational chemistry, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Theoretical and computational chemistry at University of Bristol
English
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Github Skills (58)
markdown-it10
biology9
simulation9
unifiedjs9
drug-discovery8
myst8
git-repository8
ipython8
mlp8
molecular-simulation8
shell7
markdown7
quantum-chemistry7
windows7
linux7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
jcwomack/jcwomack
Jan 2021 - Dec 2025
Contributions:1 PR, 10 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 11 months
isambard-sc/brics_jupyterhub_envs
Nov 2024 - Nov 2025
BriCS JupyterHub service development and deployment environments
Contributions:17 reviews, 31 PRs, 112 pushes in 1 year
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