Olivier Iffrig-petit
Research Software Engineer at European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
Reading, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolOlivier Iffrig-petit is a Research Software Engineer with 12 years' experience building high-performance scientific and data-processing software, currently developing meteorological data pipelines at ECMWF. He combines deep numerical-methods and CFD experience from CEA with extensive HPC practice—MPI, C++ and Python—to deliver scalable, parallel workflows for massive datasets. His background spans magnetohydrodynamics simulations during a PhD to production-focused workload modelling, software benchmarking and automated deployment, bridging research and operational engineering. Olivier has a track record of optimizing complex build systems and data handling at scale, making him as comfortable tuning MPI jobs as designing reproducible pipelines. Based in Reading, UK, he brings a researcher’s rigor to production software and an eye for performance that often uncovers non-obvious bottlenecks early in a project.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
M2, Modélisation et Simulation, M2, Modélisation et Simulation at École normale supérieure de CachanCPGE MPSI - MP*, CPGE MPSI - MP* at Lycée Kléber
French, English, German
Github Skills (62)
ninja10
meteorology10
read-write10
encoder10
macros10
python-interface10
grib10
cmake10
build-system10
encoder-decoder10
weather10
decoding10
odb10
encoding10
fdb10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ecmwf/earthkit-time
Jun 2024 - Apr 2025
Date and time manipulation routines for the use of weather data
Contributions:1 review, 17 PRs, 44 pushes in 9 months
earthkit
ecmwf/troika
Feb 2021 - Feb 2023
Contributions:5 reviews, 190 commits, 9 PRs in 2 years
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