Stewart Adcock
Technical Manager, Software Engineering, Test And Test Automation
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolStewart Adcock is a technical manager and software engineering leader with 13+ years at the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre, currently overseeing a 30-person software engineering and test organization focused on structural chemistry software. He combines deep scientific and parallel programming expertise (C/C++/C#, Python, .NET) with product ownership and numerical algorithm design, bridging research-grade computational chemistry with production-quality tooling. Stewart has a history of hands-on contributions from senior scientific engineer to technical manager, and even improves developer experience through clear documentation in open-source projects like the widely used gpiozero. Beyond engineering, he brings uncommon breadth: a DPhil from Oxford, leadership in community organisations (Scout leader, school governor, residential director) and as a registered yoga teacher specializing in arm balances and inversions. That mix of rigorous academic training, people leadership, and a knack for making complex systems accessible makes him effective at turning scientific algorithms into reliable software products.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San DiegoEaton (City of Norwich)DPhil, DPhil at Oxford UniversityMChem, MChem at University of Sheffield
Github Skills (6)
gpio10
raspberry-pi10
python10
documentation10
command-line-interface9
ed255197
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
gpiozero/gpiozero
Nov 2016 - Sep 2018
A simple interface to GPIO devices with Raspberry Pi
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 1 comment in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Stewart primarily focused on improving the documentation and command-line tool within the `gpiozero` project. They added documentation for the `pinout` command-line tool, enhancing user understanding and usability. They also made minor corrections to existing documentation and examples, demonstrating an attention to detail and a commitment to clarity. The user's changes show a focus on making the project more accessible and user-friendly through effective documentation.
raspberry-pipythongpiophysical-computingraspberry
maxcabral/csharp-sqlite
Aug 2012 - Dec 2012
Contributions:9 commits in 4 months
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