Sarah Gibson

Profile

Sarah Gibson is an Open Source Infrastructure Engineer at 2i2c, and a contributor to and advocate of open software. She holds more than two years of experience as a Research Engineer at a national institute for data science and artificial intelligence, as well as holding a core contributor role in a number of open source projects. Sarah is passionate about working with domain experts to leverage cloud computing in order to accelerate cutting-edge, data-intensive research and disseminating the results in an open, reproducible and reusable manner. She holds a Fellowship with the Software Sustainability Institute and advocates for best software practices in research.

Experience

2i2c

Remote

Open Source Infrastructure Engineer

Jun 2021 - Present

    • Python
    • Jupyter
    • Kubernetes
    • SRE
    • DevOps
    • Cloud
    • GCP
    • AWS
    • Azure
    • GitHub Actions
    • CI/CD
    • Docker

    The Alan Turing Institute

    London, UK

    Research Software Engineer

    Nov 2018 - May 2021

    • Collaborated with stakeholders throughout the Turing network on research projects linked to the Turing Challenge Areas
    • Responsible for following best software practices throughout projects, implementing required computational infrastructure or automated pipelines, data wrangling and analysis, project documentation, project management, and reporting via papers, presentations or blog posts
    • Noteable projects: The Turing Way and Living with Machines
    • Python
    • R
    • Jupyter
    • Kubernetes
    • Cloud
    • Azure
    • GitHub Actions
    • CI/CD
    • Docker
    • Ansible

    Education

    Astrophysics Ph.D.

    University of Leicester

    Thesis Title: Understanding the Most Powerful Explosions in the Universe

    MPhys Physics with Astrophysics

    University of Hull

    First Class with Honours
    photo of me

    Skills

      • Technical
      • Python
      • Kubernetes
      • Docker
      • git
      • GitHub
      • Continuous Integration/Deployment
      • testing
        Interpersonal
      • mentorship
        Communication
      • papers and research deliverables
      • technical documentation
      • community outreach and blogging
        Community
      • community management
      • hosting collaborative community calls
      • running and developing training workshops
      • managing open source issues and pull requests

    Diplomas