Sean Tuck
Research Software Engineer at University of Leeds
Leeds, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolSean Tuck is a Research Software Engineer with 11 years’ experience who blends rigorous academic training (PhD, Oxford) with practical software and data solutions in university and commercial settings. He has a track record of translating complex research and compliance requirements into reproducible tools and processes—everything from an R package used widely in remote-sensing research to a C#/SQL case-management system and migration of 50 projects to Azure. At the University of Leeds he led public and private documentation initiatives, ISO 27001–aligned ISMS workflows, and negotiations with 20+ data controllers to enable cloud migration. Previously, as Fractl UK’s first data scientist, he combined creative, data-driven research with storytelling to generate high-impact journalism-style content. Sean is comfortable bridging audiences—academics, IT teams, compliance officers and commercial clients—and is noted for delivering high-quality, auditable work under tight timelines. He pairs ecosystem-level thinking from ecology with pragmatic engineering to make data and infrastructure both usable and secure.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons), Environmental Science, First Class, BSc (Hons), Environmental Science, First Class at Kingston UniversityMSc, Quantitative Biology, Merit, MSc, Quantitative Biology, Merit at Imperial College LondonDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Plant Sciences, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Plant Sciences at University of Oxford
Github Skills (4)
modis9
r-package8
python2
kubernetes1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
sntck/DAT_CMS
Apr 2020 - May 2021
Contributions:43 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year
noswimzone/noswimzone.github.io
Oct 2020 - Jan 2021
Contributions:52 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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