Oliver Lomax
Scientific Manager at Met Office
Exeter, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolOliver Lomax is a Scientific Manager who leads a team of Scientific Software Engineers at the Met Office, modernising ensemble data assimilation for numerical weather prediction. With a PhD in Astrophysics and over fifteen years writing massively parallel HPC software, he brings deep expertise in C++ (including advanced template metaprogramming), Fortran, and Python to solve tricky numerical geometry and Bayesian data-assimilation problems. He transitioned from researching star formation and radiative transfer at universities and ESA into operational science software, combining scientific rigour with production engineering. He champions agile practices, pair programming, and test-driven development to raise software sustainability and team effectiveness. Based in Exeter, he pairs hands-on technical depth with line management, and is quietly curious about Rust as a next tool to broaden his systems-level skillset.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Astrophysics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Astrophysics at Cardiff University / Prifysgol CaerdyddMPhys, Physics with Astronomy, II/i, MPhys, Physics with Astronomy, II/i at The University of Sheffield
Github Skills (14)
prediction10
atmospheric-modelling10
python9
weather-data9
jedi9
prediction-model9
fortran9
carbon-emissions8
noaa8
climate-change7
meteorology7
deep-learning5
machine-learning5
cpp3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
JCSDA-internal/atlas
Dec 2022 - Jan 2023
A library for numerical weather prediction and climate modelling
Contributions:57 reviews, 5 commits, 28 PRs in 2 months
meteorologypythonclimatepredictionatmospheric-modelling
odlomax/spamcart-dev
Jul 2016 - Jul 2018
Contributions:42 commits, 36 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
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