Richard Rollins
Science Operations Software Engineer
Stevenage, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard Rollins is a Science Operations Software Engineer with 11 years' experience building production software for large-scale scientific projects, currently delivering the Observatory Science Operations system for the Square Kilometre Array. He holds a PhD in Astrophysics from UCL and has driven image-analysis pipelines for Euclid and DES while optimising computational physics code for the DiRAC HPC facility, blending domain science with performance engineering. Richard has progressed through research software roles at Edinburgh and Manchester after earlier business analysis experience at GSK, giving him a pragmatic eye for requirements, reproducibility, and operational constraints. He excels at translating complex scientific workflows into reliable, scalable systems for world-class observatories and surveys, and often bridges the gap between astronomers and HPC/platform teams.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc), Physics, 1st Class Honours, Master of Science (MSc), Physics, 1st Class Honours at University of CambridgeUniversity College London
Github Skills (14)
reduction8
mathematical8
vectorization7
avx7
cluster-computing7
cpp6
parallel6
parallel-computing6
asymmetric6
hpc5
simd5
python3
clustering3
tree-structure3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
rprollins/GadgetEagle-PyTools
Jun 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
rprollins/Grid
Mar 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:3 pushes, 6 branches in 4 months
cppparallelc-plus-plusparallel-datamathematical
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