Timothy Noble
Senior Research Software Engineer at STFC
Eastleigh, England, United Kingdom
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolTimothy Noble is a Senior Research Software Engineer with nine years’ experience bridging scientific research and large-scale data management, currently leading development and operations for the multi-VO Rucio deployment at STFC/RAL. He combines hands-on Python development, Linux systems administration and Kubernetes orchestration with service ownership and experiment liaison work for projects like LSST, ensuring petabyte-scale data movement and analysis. A PhD-trained stem cell scientist, he brings deep domain knowledge in wet-lab techniques (qPCR, DNA sequencing, aptamer SELEX) and applied bioinformatics, which informs his pragmatic approach to tooling and reproducibility. Timothy has a track record of translating research requirements into production services, training experiment teams and developing features that lower the barrier for smaller projects to adopt Rucio. Colleagues rely on him for both low-level debugging and strategic planning of data services, and he enjoys tinkering with cluster deployments to squeeze more reliability and performance from infrastructure. Based in Eastleigh, UK, he uniquely pairs lab-born analytical rigor with production-grade software engineering across research-driven ecosystems.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Microbial science, Upper second class, Bachelor’s Degree, Microbial science, Upper second class at The University of HuddersfieldDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, stem cell science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, stem cell science at University of SouthamptonHigh School, High School at Balby Carr Community Sports and Science Collage
Github Skills (36)
hugo10
storage10
data-management10
gis10
network10
science10
twine10
seccomp9
distributed-systems9
devcontainer9
docker8
podman8
containerization8
container7
2d-game7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Thysk/Prime-Generator
Feb 2022 - Jul 2023
A prime number generator
Contributions:49 PRs, 61 pushes, 42 branches in 1 year 5 months
primenumber-generator
Thysk/KAMB-in-silico
Feb 2021 - May 2023
Kobolds Ate My Baby Character generator
Contributions:6 PRs, 4 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 3 months
javascriptbabycharacter-generatoratecharacter
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.