Niamh Dougan
Senior Software Engineer Team Lead at Diamond Light Source
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolNiamh Dougan is a Senior Software Engineer Team Lead with eight years’ experience designing and operating control systems at Diamond Light Source, where she progressed from graduate engineer to team lead. With a background in chemistry and molecular modelling, she uniquely combines domain science with hands-on engineering in Python, C++, TypeScript, Docker and EPICS to integrate hardware and automate complex experiments. She’s skilled at turning research requirements into robust beamline control software and mentoring engineers to grow technical and operational capabilities. Known for pragmatic problem solving and cross-disciplinary collaboration, she brings both lab-floor experience and systems-level thinking to challenging scientific infrastructure projects.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Chemistry, Master’s Degree, Chemistry at University of Bristol
Github Skills (15)
external10
launchpad10
launcher9
yaml5
controller5
bazel5
kubernetes4
delta4
python4
skeleton3
cli3
pip1
boilerplate1
scanning1
helm1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
dls-controls/dls_feedback_manager
Mar 2018 - Jun 2018
Contributions:111 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
niamhdougan/dls_python3_template_module
Apr 2020 - Apr 2020
Recommendations for starting new python3 modules
Contributions:9 pushes, 9 branches, 1 tag in 3 days
pythonbootstrappingpython3recommendationsrecurly
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