Nick Hodgskin
Research Software Engineer at Utrecht University
Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Hodgskin is a Research Software Engineer with five years of experience bridging academic research and applied data science, currently based at Utrecht University. He combines strong Python expertise with practical teaching experience—having tutored and lectured at The University of Western Australia and designed internal tooling for course marking—to make complex concepts accessible. Nick contributes to open-source scientific software (notably improving documentation for the OceanParcels Lagrangian simulator), improving usability and onboarding for research users. His background spans internships and roles in data science and AI-for-good projects, where he applied modelling and production-minded scripting to real-world problems. Actively seeking hackathons and sprints, he brings a collaborative, impact-focused mindset and a knack for turning research code into useful, well-documented tools.
5 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Philosophy (Hons), Mathematics and Data Science, First Class Honours, Bachelor of Philosophy (Hons), Mathematics and Data Science, First Class Honours at The University of Western Australia
Github Skills (4)
documentation10
sphinx9
python5
git3
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
OceanParcels/Parcels
Aug 2022 - Jan 2023
Main code for Parcels (Probably A Really Computationally Efficient Lagrangian Simulator)
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:2 releases, 245 reviews, 35 commits in 5 months
Contributions summary:Nick primarily focused on improving and fixing documentation within the repository. This involved correcting links, fixing import issues to enable documentation generation, and refining docstrings for clarity. The user's changes enhanced the accessibility and usability of the project's documentation. The impact of the work is a more user-friendly and informative documentation set.
parcelssimulationsimulatoratmosphereplanets
VeckoTheGecko/parcels
Aug 2022 - Feb 2025
Main code for Parcels (Probably A Really Computationally Efficient Lagrangian Simulator)
Contributions:22 PRs, 229 pushes, 251 branches in 2 years 6 months
parcelssimulationsimulatorjuliareally
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