Thomas Zwagerman
Senior Research Software Engineer at British Antarctic Survey
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolThomas Zwagerman is a Senior Research Software Engineer with eight years’ experience building sustainable research software and data pipelines for environmental science, now leading RSE work at the British Antarctic Survey. He combines hands-on Python development with a strong R background to deliver FAIR data, sensor-to-publication workflows, and low-power sensor network integrations for projects like autonomous marine operations and ice-sheet model ensembling. Previously he bridged data science and policy as the sole Data Intelligence Officer for a local authority and developed automated QA and dissemination tools for air quality and climate datasets at UKCEH. Thomas is comfortable translating complex technical requirements into accessible outputs for stakeholders and has a track record of embedding long-term data curation and reproducibility into scientific workflows. A practical systems thinker, he mixes field-oriented environmental domain knowledge with software engineering best practices to make research outputs reusable and operational.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Ecological & Environmental Sciences, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Ecological & Environmental Sciences at The University of EdinburghInternational Baccalaureate – International School of Hilversum, International Baccalaureate – International School of Hilversum at International Baccalaureate
English, Dutch, Spanish, scottish gaelic
Github Skills (52)
r10
shiny10
rstudio10
scatter-plot9
reactive9
r-package9
web-development9
software-quality7
rsconnect7
verification7
htmlwidgets7
json-api7
ropensci7
gcloud7
d3js6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
SCC-Planning/sccthemes
Sep 2022 - Nov 2022
Contributions:25 commits, 13 pushes, 2 comments in 1 month
ropensci/butterfly
Oct 2024 - Apr 2025
Verification of continually updating timeseries data where we expect new values, but want to ensure previous data remains unchanged. Maintained by @thomaszwagerman
Contributions:2 releases, 27 PRs, 84 pushes in 5 months
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