Dr. Jack Leland

Senior Research Software Engineer

After working as a software developer in industry for a couple of years, Jack completed a PhD in Fusion Plasma Physics in 2021 at the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy. Here he ran experiments and simulations studying Langmuir probes, but found a love for developing software tools for facilitating research. Following this he spent a number of years working as a Software Developer at CEDA (the Centre for Environmental Data Analysis) on the JASMIN supercomputer, where he developed a unified storage interface tool – the NLDS – to allow users to write data quickly to tape using an s3 cache.

Jack joined the Research Software Engineering in 2024 to get back closer to researchers and help them to create novel solutions to their research problems while adhering to modern software engineering best-practices.