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I’m Jack Atkinson, a scientist, archer, and researcher.

I am currently a principal research software engineer (RSE) in the Institute of Computing for Climate Science at the University of Cambridge where I co-lead a team of 12 RSEs working to support a range of software projects across a range of international climate science projects. and fellow

My background is in geophysical fluid dynamics and numerical modelling having worked as a researcher at Cambridge studying tropical cyclones, thermals, volcanic plumes, and at the British Antarctic Survey studying the radiation belts. I regularly work with various large-scale climate modelling codes running on high-perfomance computing systems.

You might know me as:

• lead developer of FTorch , software for coupling PyTorch ML into Fortran used across scientific computing,
• an editor at the Journal of Open Source Software ,
• fellow of the Software Sustainability Institute ,
• Carpentries Instructor and teacher of software concepts to scientists, in-particular my:
  • Software Skills for Science workshop, and
  • Using git and GitHub for Science workshop
• contributor to the RSE community , organiser of the Cambridge RSE Seminar Series and co-founder of the Geoscience-RSE SIG .
• member of the Archery GB Technical Advisory Group and developer of the latest handicap and classification system,
• maintainer of the archeryutils software library for the above schemes, and archerycalculator.co.uk that provides them free to the global archery community.

Full details of my work and abilities can be viewed on my curriculum vitae .

Read some of my posts for thoughts or tutorials on various things from archery to zoftware.