Padraig Gleeson
Principal Research Fellow at OpenWorm Foundation
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolPadraig Gleeson is a Principal Research Fellow and computational neuroscience engineer with 19 years’ experience building languages, tools and platforms for sharing and simulating complex neuronal models. He is a lead developer of NeuroML, founder of the Open Source Brain repository, and Project Director of the high-profile OpenWorm effort, where he also applied DevOps and CI automation to containerize and reproduce whole-organism simulations. His work sits at the intersection of neuroscience, AI and software engineering—co-founding the ModECI initiative to unify model exchange across fields and securing a five-year EPSRC fellowship to pursue that vision. Trained as a physicist with a PhD in neuroscience from UCL, he blends rigorous academic research with hands-on systems engineering and a long track record of enabling reproducible, collaborative modeling science.
18 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc), Mathematical Physics, First Class Honours, Master of Science (MSc), Mathematical Physics, First Class Honours at University College DublinDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Neuroscience, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Neuroscience at University College London, U. of London
English, Dutch
Github Skills (10)
bash10
docker10
dockers10
build-automation10
cicd10
dockerfile10
python9
githubaction-workflow9
github-ci9
linux8
Programming languages (26)
Github contributions (5)
openworm/OpenWorm
Feb 2013 - Nov 2022
Repository for the main Dockerfile with the OpenWorm software stack and project-wide issues
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:4 releases, 157 commits, 46 PRs in 9 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Padraig primarily focused on automating the build and deployment process for the OpenWorm project. They developed and modified scripts to build Docker images, manage dependencies, and configure the environment for running the OpenWorm simulation. The contributions involved creating and refining build scripts, and adapting the Dockerfile to ensure the project builds correctly, including the use of a Python 2 environment. They also incorporated automated testing and continuous integration practices.
dockerfilesoftware-stackbiologysimulationdocker
ModECI/Website
Oct 2020 - Mar 2025
ModECI website
Contributions:59 PRs, 82 pushes, 16 branches in 4 years 5 months
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