Sky French
Head Of Scientific Software Strategy And Solutions
Greater Oxford Area United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolSky French is a strategic software leader and PhD physicist who directs scientific software strategy for Diamond Light Source’s £500m Diamond-II upgrade, shaping long-term architecture and scientific priorities across multidisciplinary teams. With eight years of leadership experience and earlier technical roles at Williams F1 and CERN, Sky blends deep technical fluency with people-centred programme leadership, matrix-managing ~50 FTEs and chairing governance boards. They excel at building high-performance teams, talent pipelines and the trust and culture needed to deliver complex, multi-year engineering programmes. Motivated by enabling others, Sky focuses on clarity, purpose and organisational alignment rather than hands-on coding, yet retains credibility from early-career work on real-time and large-scale scientific software. An unusual strength is translating experimental particle-physics rigor into pragmatic governance and risk management for engineering projects.
7 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Experimental Particle Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Experimental Particle Physics at University of CambridgeWithington Girls' School
Github Skills (25)
detector10
parallel9
display-manager9
eclipse9
control-systems8
collections8
scale8
large-scale8
java8
monitor8
accelerator7
qbcore-framework7
operator6
dwm5
kubernetes4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
dls-controls/odin-data
Dec 2018 - Mar 2022
DAQ software libraries for capturing and storing data from parallel detector systems
Contributions:2 PRs, 56 pushes, 11 branches in 3 years 3 months
capturingparallelstoringdetectordaq
odin-detector/odin-data
Nov 2018 - Dec 2019
DAQ software libraries for capturing and storing data from parallel detector systems
Contributions:3 reviews, 93 commits, 10 PRs in 1 year
capturingparallelstoringdetectordaq
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