Paddy Harrison
Coach & Performance Co-ordinator
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolPaddy Harrison is a performance coach and doctoral researcher in muscle physiology with eight years’ experience preparing cyclists from national to Olympic level and coordinating interdisciplinary support for elite athletes. He combines rigorous, research-led training design — including athlete profiling, annual planning and novel interventions like blood flow restriction and altitude/heat protocols — with hands-on delivery of training camps and race support. His PhD work focuses on optimizing low-intensity endurance training, and he brings advanced lab skills (muscle biopsy, single-fibre dissection, pulmonary gas analysis, molecular assays) to applied performance questions. Paddy also runs a successful private coaching practice for varied endurance athletes and has held a key coaching role at Loughborough Sport and INEOS Grenadiers. Unusually for a coach, he contributes to open-source testing in the Vispy graphics project as a QA/test automation engineer and codes in Python, reflecting an analytical, data-driven approach to performance. Based in London, he blends elite sport experience, academic rigour and practical engineering instincts to drive measurable athlete improvement.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Sports Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Sports Science at Loughborough UniversityBachelor of Science - BS (Hons), Sports and Exercise, Class 1 (4.0 GPA), Bachelor of Science - BS (Hons), Sports and Exercise, Class 1 (4.0 GPA) at University of BirminghamThe Latymer School
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (14)
testing10
pytest10
python10
numpy9
visualizations7
visualization7
volume-rendering6
scikit-image6
scipy6
math6
scatter-plot6
linear-algebra6
matplotlib6
opengl5
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
vispy/vispy
Jul 2022 - Sep 2022
Main repository for Vispy
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:1 review, 16 commits, 1 PR in 2 months
Contributions summary:Paddy's contributions primarily focused on adding and updating tests for the Vispy library's camera functionality. This included creating a new test script for the turntable camera, implementing assertions to verify camera transformations, and updating existing tests. The changes encompassed modifying and improving the test code, including adjusting tolerance levels for test assertions.
openglvispypythonvisualization
harripj/orix
Mar 2022 - Apr 2024
Python library for handling crystal orientation mapping data.
Contributions:245 pushes, 35 branches in 2 years 1 month
python-librarypythoncrystaldata-mappingorientation
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