Simon Clifford
Research Software Engineer at University of Cambridge
Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolSimon Clifford is a Research Software Engineer with 13 years' experience helping academic groups turn legacy scientific codes into performant, maintainable software. Based in Glasgow, he has deep expertise across Python, Fortran, C++, Java and HPC tooling, and a strong track record in optimisation, parallelisation (OpenMP/MPI) and debugging for codes like Gaussian, iSALE and Quantics. His career spans hands-on RSE and research computing support roles at Cambridge, Imperial and UCL, where he built bespoke analysis tools, implemented SSH key and SSO solutions, and managed cluster infrastructure and 100TB-scale storage. Simon combines practical system administration with research-led software development, producing both production-ready parallel implementations and clear, client-facing technical reports. He is comfortable moving between quick “taster” fixes that seed larger projects and longer-term refactors that modernise scientific workflows.
13 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computational Chemistry, PhD, Computational Chemistry at King's College London
Github Skills (18)
interoperability10
pytorch9
python9
fortran9
deep-learning8
keras8
machine-learning8
curve-fitting6
curve5
tensorflow5
super-resolution5
process-model4
levenberg-marquardt3
gpu-programming3
gpu-acceleration2
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ICHPC/hpc-portal
Aug 2014 - May 2015
Contributions:96 commits, 7 pushes, 1 comment in 9 months
Cambridge-ICCS/fortran-tf-lib
Jan 2022 - Jan 2023
A library for directly calling TensorFlow / Keras ML models from Fortran.
Contributions:23 commits, 11 PRs, 16 pushes in 1 year
pytorchcallingml-modelsdeep-learningmachine-learning
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