Radovan Bast
Senior Scientist at oceanbox.io
Tromsø, Troms og Finnmark, Norway
Summary
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Top SchoolRadovan Bast is a Senior Scientist and research software engineer with 16 years of experience bridging theoretical chemistry and high-performance research computing. He led the HPC and Research Software Engineering group at UiT for nearly a decade, building reproducible CI/CD and testing workflows and helping teams productionize scientific code. Comfortable across languages and DevOps tooling, his open-source work includes improving the widely used mido MIDI Python library and hardening CI for the CMake Cookbook, demonstrating attention to maintainability and community-facing documentation. Based in Tromsø, he combines deep academic training (PhD in theoretical chemistry) with pragmatic engineering—often turning complex numerical methods into robust, testable software. An under-the-radar strength is his knack for improving developer experience: clear docs, CI automation, and incremental refactors that save future debugging time.
16 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Theoretical Chemistry, Ph.D., Theoretical Chemistry at Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, FranceDipl. Chem., Chemistry, Dipl. Chem., Chemistry at Philipps-Universität Marburg
Norwegian, Swedish, Polish, French, English, German, Czech
Github Skills (12)
midi10
midi-instrument10
github-ci10
bash10
cmake10
githubaction-workflow10
python10
cicd10
testing10
documentation9
yaml9
pytest7
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
mido/mido
Oct 2018 - Jun 2021
MIDI Objects for Python
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:19 reviews, 23 commits, 23 PRs in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Radovan primarily focused on improving the `mido` library's functionality and maintainability. They added comments and refined the code related to MIDI file playback, including time calculations and message handling. The user also updated documentation and project configuration files, such as the `README.rst` and `docs/contributing.rst`, to improve clarity, community engagement, and testing infrastructure using GitHub Actions.
midipythonmidifile
bast/polygons
Apr 2017 - Dec 2021
Fast points-in-polygon test and distances to polygons.
Contributions:9 releases, 264 commits, 6 PRs in 4 years 8 months
distancespolygonsspacialrustdistance
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