Rhys Poulton
Senior Scientific Software Engineer at Met Office
Manchester, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRhys Poulton is a Senior Scientific Software Engineer with nine years of experience building scalable, low-latency data systems and scientific pipelines in Python, C/C++ and cloud-native environments. He has led development of Kafka-based distribution systems and Kubernetes alerting infrastructures for multi-messenger astronomy, and now applies that expertise to standardizing and optimizing weather model outputs at the Met Office. Comfortable across CI/CD, containerization, Rucio data management and FPGA acceleration, he combines academic rigor from a PhD in Astrophysics with practical engineering to deliver robust, high-performance production code. Known for thoughtful code reviews and cross-discipline collaboration with scientists, Rhys translates domain requirements into testable, maintainable software while driving measurable performance gains. An unexpected strength is his history of maintaining the IGWN Conda distribution and curating conda-forge recipes, showing a knack for reproducible environments that scale across global research infrastructures.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Astronomy and Astrophysics at The University of Western AustraliaMartins wood primary schoolData Science, Data Science at University of MichiganIntergrated Master of Physics, Physics, Higher distinction, Intergrated Master of Physics, Physics, Higher distinction at University of SussexNobel School
Github Skills (25)
conda-forge10
conda10
finder10
galaxy10
simulation9
simulations9
synchronize9
wavelet-transform8
python8
pybind118
halo8
wavelet8
smithy7
singularity7
signal-processing7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
rhyspoulton/VELOCIraptor-STF
Oct 2016 - Sep 2020
Galaxy/(sub)Halo finder for N-body simulations
Contributions:2 PRs, 54 pushes, 25 branches in 4 years
halobodyn-bodysimulationgalaxy
conda-forge/xforms-feedstock
Apr 2021 - Sep 2023
A conda-smithy repository for xforms.
Contributions:4 PRs, 5 pushes, 1 comment in 2 years 5 months
condaxforms
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