Victoria Cherkas
Scientific Software Developer at Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology MeteoSwiss
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolVictoria Cherkas is a Scientific Software Developer with four years of experience building and maintaining scientific and infrastructure software for numerical weather prediction at MeteoSwiss. Trained in physics (MSci, Imperial College London and Grenoble INP), she combines rigorous analytical skills with practical engineering, contributing upstream to major open-source tooling like the Spack package manager by updating and maintaining complex dependency definitions. Her background includes technology and architecture roles at Accenture, where she honed system design and delivery practices that she now applies to meteorological software stacks. Based in Zurich, she brings a blend of research-level domain knowledge and hands-on back-end development, with a knack for improving reproducible builds and package maintenance that often goes unnoticed but materially reduces deployment friction.
4 years of coding experience
MSci, Physics, 1st Class Honours, MSci, Physics, 1st Class Honours at Imperial College LondonMSci, Physics, 1st, MSci, Physics, 1st at Grenoble INP - Phelma
French, Spanish
Github Skills (5)
cmake10
package-management10
python9
build-tools9
scientific-computing8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
spack/spack
Nov 2022 - Nov 2022
A flexible package manager that supports multiple versions, configurations, platforms, and compilers.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 reviews, 1 commit, 12 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Victoria primarily contributed to the Spack package manager by adding new versions of dependencies, specifically focusing on the fdb, metkit, and eccodes packages. They updated package definitions with new releases and added or modified dependency constraints. Furthermore, the user was involved in adding git URLs and maintainer information to various packages, contributing to the project's upkeep and maintenance.
compilerspythonradiussplatformslinux
C2SM/icon-vis
Mar 2022 - Jan 2023
Collection of Python scripts and notebooks to demonstrate plotting on the ICON grid.
Contributions:12 releases, 23 reviews, 295 commits in 11 months
jupyterpython
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