Rob Nyman
Senior Development Engineer at Mode Labs
Oxford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRob Nyman is a Senior Development Engineer with over 17 years of hands-on experience translating foundational physics into precision instruments and commercial products, currently applying that expertise to quantum computing and scientific systems design. His career bridges academia and industry—leading photon condensation research at Imperial College while developing commercial hardware at Oxford HighQ, and later building quantum hardware at Oxford Ionics—demonstrating rare fluency across optics, atomic physics, cryogenics and instrument control. He excels at end-to-end scientific engineering: system architecture, optics and hardware development, data analysis, IP generation and team leadership. Notably, he was a Principal Investigator on one of the world’s earliest photon Bose–Einstein condensate experiments and has a track record of turning frontier experiments into reproducible devices. Based in Oxford and trained at Cambridge and Nottingham, he combines deep research credentials with pragmatic product focus to shepherd complex physics projects from lab concept to deployable systems.
17 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Physics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Physics at University of NottinghamMSci Physics, MSci Physics at University of Cambridge
English, French, Portuguese
Github Skills (48)
git10
javascript10
devrel10
technical-writing10
css10
typescript10
policies10
firefox10
mobile-web10
chrome10
html10
frontend10
backend10
react10
interop9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
robnyman/inline-code-finder
Mar 2009 - Sep 2011
Contributions:16 commits in 2 years 5 months
robnyman/TranslationTester
Apr 2014 - Mar 2015
Contributions:32 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 11 months
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