Patrick Roddy
Senior Research Software Engineer at UCL Advanced Research Computing (ARC)
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolPatrick Roddy is a Senior Research Software Engineer at UCL Advanced Research Computing with eight years’ experience translating academic research needs into production-ready software and infrastructure. He designs and implements tooling across scientific domains—from Napari and ImageJ plugins to dockerised fetal imaging pipelines, XNAT/OMERO infrastructure-as-code, and GPU-optimised astrophysics code—while also leading a DevOps subgroup and departmental training. Comfortable across Python, parallelisation and cloud/container workflows, he blends hands-on development with teaching experience from university courses to industry placements. A PhD in Data Intensive Science and a background in computational astrophysics inform his pragmatic approach to complex data pipelines and reproducible research. Notably, he has converted legacy scientific codes into maintainable Python packages and built bespoke hospital tools that bridge research and clinical operations.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSci), Natural Sciences, Master of Science (MSci), Natural Sciences at University of CambridgeA Levels, Chemistry, Physics, Maths and Further Maths, A Levels, Chemistry, Physics, Maths and Further Maths at Kenilworth School and Sixth FormUniversity College London
French, Spanish, Portuguese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
powerline10
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numerics10
linter10
plotly-express10
image-analysis10
object-tracking10
json10
fundamental10
quality-assurance10
regl10
visualization10
css10
python-bindings10
linear-algebra10
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
paddyroddy/sleplet
Feb 2023 - Apr 2025
Slepian scale-discretised wavelets in Python
Contributions:1 review, 18 PRs, 40 pushes in 2 years 1 month
paddyroddy/paddyroddy.github.io
Dec 2018 - Dec 2022
Contributions:11 reviews, 223 commits, 159 PRs in 4 years
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