Mark Turner
Head Of Research Computing at Inkspot Science Ltd
Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMark Turner is a strategic engineering leader and Head of Research Computing with over a decade of experience building and scaling multidisciplinary teams across software engineering, data science and infrastructure in research environments. He has a strong track record of delivering organisational change—merging separate teams into a single high-performance unit, halving operational overhead while maintaining service levels, and doubling capacity to meet rising demand. Comfortable at the intersection of research and enterprise, he secures funding, forms academic and industry partnerships, and drives reproducible science, data governance and security practices. A people-focused coach, he designs career frameworks, champions inclusive cultures and created a volunteering framework to boost open-source and community engagement. Technically grounded from early full‑stack and cloud projects to HPC initiatives, he combines hands-on delivery with senior stakeholder influence and a knack for turning messy research data into usable systems.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Senior Leadership, Business Administration and Management, General, Senior Leadership, Business Administration and Management, General at Newcastle UniversityInternet Computing BSc, Computer Science, Internet Computing BSc, Computer Science at Northumbria University
Github Skills (92)
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
NewcastleRSE/rse-admin-strapi
Apr 2024 - Feb 2025
Contributions:7 releases, 18 PRs, 44 pushes in 9 months
ATNU/sarum-hymnal
Mar 2018 - Apr 2020
A digital edition of The Sarum Hymnal, a 16th-century part-book
Contributions:10 releases, 31 commits, 4 PRs in 2 years 1 month
hymnaldigital-edition
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