David was a Senior Research Software Engineer with a research background in optical physics and sensory biology. Following a PhD and postdoc at the University of Bristol and a postdoc at Lund University David made the transition to research software engineering in 2019.
David left the RSE Sheffield team in 2023 to take up a role as a Research Software Engineer at the British Antarctic Survey.
His interests in research software relate to: impact enhancement, reproducibility and sustainability, best practice and environmental and social responsibility, in addition to interests in training researchers in research software.
In 2022, David became a fellow of the Software Sustainability Institute with a project on developing guidance and training around reproducible research in MATLAB.
He has been involved in numerous research projects including:
dockerising and python packaging NLP tools.