Stephen Haddad
Scientific Systems Lead For Data Science Expertise And Guidance
Exeter, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolStephen Haddad is a Scientific Systems Lead with nine years’ experience applying software engineering and data science to weather and climate problems at the Met Office. He blends hands-on development in Python, Fortran and C++ with leadership of community training, tooling and best-practice initiatives that help scientists adopt machine learning and big-data workflows. His background includes building HPC-ready climate post‑processing pipelines, cloud-based visualization tools, and ML pilots to reduce uncertainty in ocean temperature datasets. He began his career developing 3D modeling and image-processing software for engineering applications and holds an MSc in Electrical Engineering focusing on image processing and pattern recognition. Stephen excels at turning research prototypes into robust, production-capable systems at the interface of science and commercial product development. Colleagues rely on him not only for technical depth but for pragmatic tooling and training that scale data science across organisations.
9 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Electrical Eningeering, Image Processing, Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, MSc, Electrical Eningeering, Image Processing, Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition at University of Cape Town
Github Skills (37)
observation10
meteorology10
visualization10
survey10
forecast10
evaluation9
grib8
loops8
data-science7
netcdf7
classification7
earth-science7
oceanography7
ai6
machine-learning6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
informatics-lab/precip_rediagnosis
Jan 2022 - Apr 2025
Project to use ML to re-diagnose precipitation fields from ensemble model fields
Contributions:15 reviews, 15 PRs, 93 pushes in 3 years 3 months
precipitationensemble-modelensemblemachine-learningdiagnose
MetOffice/DataScience-NetworkOfCommunities
May 2021 - Jul 2022
Data Science Network Of Communities Portal
Contributions:9 commits, 2 PRs, 7 pushes in 1 year 2 months
data-science
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