Raoul Charman
Senior Software Engineer at Bloomberg
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolRaoul Charman is a senior software engineer based in London with nine years of experience building reliable backend and DevOps systems, currently at Bloomberg after several years at Codethink and a recent freelance stint. He favors purely functional programming and strong type systems—Haskell and Rust are his tools of choice—and applies that mindset to craft maintainable, correctness-focused software. His open-source contributions include practical enhancements to the DIRAC Grid, where he improved job shutdown handling and refactored watchdog logic for better efficiency. A first-class MPhys in Theoretical Physics from the University of Manchester, he brings a scientist's rigor to engineering tradeoffs and a clear opinion about languages (notably a pronounced dislike of Python and C++). Colleagues can expect a pragmatist who values type-driven design and clean, production-ready infrastructure.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Aylesbury Grammar SchoolMPhys, Physics with Theoretical Physics, 1st, MPhys, Physics with Theoretical Physics, 1st at University of Manchester
Github Skills (8)
task-management10
workflow-management10
watchdog10
resource-management10
python10
grid10
grids10
distributed-computing10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
DIRACGrid/DIRAC
Mar 2018 - Mar 2018
DIRAC Grid
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & DevOps Engineer
Backend Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 1 comment in 18 days
Contributions summary:Raoul's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the DIRAC Grid system's functionality. They implemented a mechanism for managing job shutdowns using a `shutdown_time` file, integrating it into the job watchdog. Furthermore, they refactored code, moving the shutdown time checks to a utility module (`MJF.py`) to optimize the job's control and improve efficiency. The user also made general code improvements, including removing debug messages and fixing a typo, plus performed a merge operation for a separate branch integration.
griddiracdistributed-computingworkflow-managementworkload-management
RaoulHC/fortran-src
Aug 2019 - Aug 2021
Fortran parsing and analysis infrastructure
Contributions:22 pushes, 11 branches in 2 years
fortraninfrastructureparsing
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