Rob Bettles is a Senior Research Software Engineer based in Oxford with nine years of experience blending theoretical atomic physics and hands-on software engineering. He has moved from postdoctoral research to leading scientific software teams in genomics, owning key R&D tools and driving CI/CD, containerised deployments and cross-team model rollouts. Rob excels at translating complex physics problems into maintainable, well-designed code and enjoys mentoring scientists in software best practices. He is as comfortable in collaborative experimental-theory environments as he is managing agile development and has a track record of turning research prototypes into production-ready scientific software. An uncommon strength is his ability to bridge deep theoretical insight with pragmatic engineering decisions, enabling efficient, elegant solutions to interdisciplinary problems.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Physics at University of Durham
Contributions:28 commits, 27 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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Rob Bettles - Science Software Manager at Genomics