Developer Stories

Developer Stories

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  • Language shapes reality

    Today we go to Berlin in Germany to meet with Stephan Druskat (@sdruskat). Stephan is a research software engineer at

    the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
    He has been involved with a lot of exciting research on
    linguistics, such as the study of Oceanic languages (https://www.projekte.hu-berlin.de/en/melatamp).
    Another focus of his work has been “software citation” and ensuring that software becomes a valid and recognised output of research [ref].
    And if that isn’t enough, Stephan plays an important part in building the RSE community in Germany.

    40 min
  • The Research Software Engineer CEO

    When you love technology regardless of the domain of science that is using it,

    it’s often challenging to find a niche in a traditional academic role. In this episode
    of RSE Stories, We talk to Joe Schoonover, the CEO of Fluid Numerics. Joe found
    himself in this exact position after graduate school and trying out a postdoc,
    and embarked on an adventure to start his own company. In this episode
    we discuss cloud vs. HPC, what it’s like to start your own company, and challenges
    in both of those spaces.

    26 min
  • Software is the backbone

    In today’s episode Peter meets Neil Chue Hong and Simon Hettrick. Neil and Simon are the director/deputy director of the Software Sustainability Institute. For nearly 10 years the institute has been the “backbone” for research software engineering and the RSE movement.

    It helped build the RSE movement and network, not only in the UK but in other countries. Neil and Simon discuss what changes the coronavirus pandemic brought to research software engineering as well as the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead of us. And did you know the institute has a blog with cooking recipes?

    40 min
  • Awesome Airplanes

    This week on RSE Stories we chat with Stuart Bowman, a simulations engineer

    at the MITRE, who is working to “solve problems for a safer world” that range
    from airplanes to emerging technologies. Stuart offers a valuable perspective
    about an option for a research software engineer that cares deeply about
    solving problems and helping people, but doesn’t necessarily want to stay in
    academia. Have you wondered what it takes to be a pilot, or how air travel
    is worked on from a research perspective? Take a listen!

    24 min
  • Get the bugs!

    RSE Stories is going places! This episode is brought to you from London in collaboration with the Society of Research Software Engineering in the UK (RSE UK).

    Today’s host is Peter Schmidt talking with Richard Fitzjohn. Richard leads a team of research software engineers (RSE) at the MRC (Medical Research Council) Centre for Global Infectious Disease Epidemiology at Imperial College in London. Before Richard became a research software engineer he worked in theoretical evolutionary biology. But today, he and his team help epidemiologists develop models for infectious diseases. Lately, this meant developing models for the coronavirus outbreak. What does this work entail? And with some models being made public, how can research software engineers ensure that best development practices and standards are being followed and maintained?

    26 min
  • Software as a Garden

    In this episode of RSE Stories we talk with Julian Pistorius, a software

    engineer and self-proclaimed organic software farmer at the College of Agriculture
    and Life Sciences, or more specifically, at the Digital Innovations for
    Agriculture Group (DIAG) at the University of Arizona. Julian is co-lead to
    a project called Exosphere, which he describes as an OnDemand for cloud computing.
    Listen closely for insights to taking care of communities, software projects,
    and how a research software engineer can think about his or her place in
    the two.

    29 min
  • Spack Attack!

    For this episode of RSE Stories, we interview Todd Gamblin, a computer scientist

    from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory that
    thrives in the gray area between hardware, HPC, and open source development.
    Todd shares his journey to be working at a National Lab, and how
    getting angry at software led to development of a hugely popular package
    manager, Spack.

    22 min
  • Coming Home

    In this 17th Episode of Research Software Engineer Stories, we interview

    Andrew Turner, a research software engineer that leads a team at the University
    of Edinburgh, and discuss how research software engineering has brought a sense
    of belonging to so many that did not have it before. Andrew shares his hopes
    for the future, personal challenges, and a little bit of beauty that you might
    not know exists in caving.

    24 min
  • The Cloud Engineer

    Have you ever heard of CNCF, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, or

    heard someone describe a tool or workflow as “cloud native?” For this episode
    of RSE Stories we talk with Bob Killen, a cloud engineer that is a real life
    “Mr. Bobby Tables” and can tell you all about how to take containers, hpc,
    and cloud for a spin.

    21 min
  • Software on the Farm

    Agriculture is so fundamentally important to the economy, but some would

    argue that it falls behind with respect to access to technology. For this
    episode of RSE Stories, we speak with Chris Pahmeyer, an agricultural economist
    and research software engineer that is aiming to tackle some of these problems.

    21 min

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