Robert Howlett
Optimization Lead
Oxford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRobert Howlett is an Optimization Lead and backend engineer with nine years of experience building high-performance systems in Python and Rust from Oxford, UK. He has a strong track record of squeezing order-of-magnitude performance gains out of production code—delivering 15x speedups and global 10% program improvements that translated into significant cost savings and business growth. At Genomics plc he built massively concurrent workflow execution and caching backed by REST APIs and optimized SQLite virtual table queries in Rust, and at Aurora he led teams, mentored diverse engineers, and rebuilt libraries that underpin a sizeable portion of revenue. Comfortable in both hands-on coding and technical leadership, he combines systems-level thinking with pragmatic testing, CI and deployment practices across cloud and physical infrastructure. He also has a knack for turning operational telemetry into product improvements, having designed log-analysis systems that informed management decisions and reduced recurring failures. Colleagues rely on him to translate domain complexity (energy and carbon markets) into robust, auditable software that scales.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (MEng) Engineering, Master of Engineering (MEng) Engineering at University of OxfordAshfield Comprehensive School
English
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Github Skills (89)
programming-language10
python10
testing10
pandas10
quality-assurance10
python-interface10
geometric10
fuzzing10
test-suite10
data-analysis10
property-based-testing10
read-write10
manipulation10
frame10
dataframes9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
jebob/gdx-pandas
Aug 2018 - Jul 2021
Python interface to read and write GAMS GDX files using pandas.DataFrames as the intermediate data format.
Contributions:2 releases, 26 pushes, 24 branches in 2 years 11 months
data-analysispythondataframesdata-sciencegdx
jebob/open-aurora
Feb 2017 - May 2018
Contributions:11 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 2 months
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