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Profiles of RSEs in our community #59
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Name: Position Description: Institution: Why do I consider myself an RSE?: What do I do that is most valued by the people I'm helping?: How many times have you been given short term contracts (less than 1 year) while working in research? What is the nicest complient you have ever received when working as an RSE? What kind of tech/architecture do you use? Previously I used Pyramid (Python web framework), Postgres, Apache, Ansible, Redis on the Nectar cloud for Stemformatics. What tech would you like to learn next and why? |
There are some interview/case studies on RSEs here https://rse.ac.uk/resources/case-studies-on-rse-careers/ which might give some ideas about how to write these and what to say |
Name: Position Description: Why do I consider myself an RSE? What do I do that is most valued by the people I'm helping? How many times have you been given short term contracts (less than 1 year) while working in research? Since mid-2015:
What is the nicest compliment you have ever received when working as an RSE? What kind of tech/architecture do you use? What tech would you like to learn next and why?
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Name: Position Description: Why do I consider myself an RSE? What do I do that is most valued by the people I'm helping? How many times have you been given short term contracts (less than 1 year) while working in research? I've lost track of my time as a research associate at QUT. In my first five year stint with Griffith University, I asked HR at the end of it for a summary of contracts and extensions. Turns out I had a total of 13 over the period. My current stint with Griffith university is a lot less dynamic, operating on a minimum of yearly contracts for the next 2 years. What is the nicest compliment you have ever received when working as an RSE? What kind of tech/architecture do you use? What tech would you like to learn next and why? A deeper exploration of concepts around Continuous Integration. Specifically, auto-deploy and/or testing via container technologies such as Docker. |
Name: Position Description: Institution: Why do I consider myself an RSE? What do I do that is most valued by the people I'm helping? How many times have you been given short term contracts (less than 1 year) while working in research? What is the nicest compliment you have ever received when working as an RSE? What kind of tech/architecture do you use? What tech would you like to learn next and why? |
Name: Position Description: Institution: Why do I consider myself an RSE?: What do I do that is most valued by the people I'm helping?: How many times have you been given short term contracts (less than 1 year) while working in research? What is the nicest complient you have ever received when working as an RSE? What kind of tech/architecture do you use? What tech would you like to learn next and why? |
Name: Position Description: Institution: Why do I consider myself an RSE?: What do I do that is most valued by the people I'm helping? How many times have you been given short term contracts (less than 1 year) while working in research? What is the nicest compliment you have ever received when working as an RSE? What kind of tech/architecture do you use? I can get by in Javascript, but frameworks do my head in. I am very much a prototyper / PoC builder / data munger / data exploiter. I work on Linux and MacOS - bash is my friend, and I grew up doing command line cartography. I sometimes understand git, but use it every day. What tech would you like to learn next and why? Having said that I don’t really want to go deeper into technology, since it ignores the strategic side of my life and experience; and ends up being a trap. I’m vastly better at assessing the landscape and designing what to code. So, really? wooden boat building 😉, and going back to scanning things with lasers |
Name:Charles T. Gray Position Description:
Why do I consider myself an RSE?:In the six years or so I have had the opportunity to participate in research projects (undergrad research opportunities, now a phd student), the vast majority of my time has been spent on computational tasks. Frequently tasks where I feel that I am very inexpertly trying to reinvent a wheel I have not been trained to craft. I feel driven to look for tools to bridge this gap, if only to save my future self pain. What do I do that is most valued by the people I'm helping?:I think my biggest contributions so far have been in sharing my learning process with other people learning to code, through teaching, blogging, and twitter. Although, 🤔 I co-authored and made a small contribution on two papers this year, and I used my software skills in both cases. In the first, I contributed to an ecology paper on the value of standardised data for systematic reviews. In another, I converted an equation to a function and packaged it for the r-savvy but not so mathematical psychologist primary authors. I feel my primary value is not so much my SE skills or mathematical, but so far my experiment in seeing what the combination of the two is proving to be most enjoyable. How many times have you been given short term contracts (less than 1 year) while working in research?🤷♀️ I've never known any other life than a precariat and I've had any number of casual roles from librarian to now reproducible data analysis RA. What is the nicest compliment you have ever received when working as an RSE?It's really fun working with you and now I feel really good about myself. What kind of tech/architecture do you use?I try to keep really firm boundaries on this. I wish to learn to be a good statistician, not a good computer scientist, but what I am interesting in using, I'm interested in learning about good practice. Data simulation is what I'm most interested in right now. I'm really interested in good enough practice in data science, R, tidyverse, packaged analysis, git, bash... What tech would you like to learn next and why?...and possibly julia and C eventually - so my simulations run faster. I consent to this profile being shared publicly |
Happy for this to be shared publicly.Name: Position Description: Institution: Why do I consider myself an RSE?: What do I do that is most valued by the people I'm helping?: How many times have you been given short term contracts (less than 1 year) while working in research? What is the nicest compliment you have ever received when working as an RSE? What kind of tech/architecture do you use? What tech would you like to learn next and why? Edits at eResearch NZ 2020 at RSE BoF session What is your educational background? What do you do in your current role? How did you end up in this role? What is one thing you love about your role and what is a challenge? A challenge is to keep abreast of the science behind the models that I maintain. I still get involved with scientific publications but less so than when I was a postdoc. |
Name: Position Description: Institution: Why do I consider myself an RSE?: What do I do that is most valued by the people I'm helping?: How many times have you been given short term contracts (less than 1 year) while working in research? What is the nicest compliment you have ever received when working as an RSE? What kind of tech/architecture do you use? What tech would you like to learn next and why? |
Name: Position Description: Institution: Why do I consider myself an RSE?: What do I do that is most valued by the people I'm helping?: How many times have you been given short term contracts (less than 1 year) while working in research? What is the nicest compliment you have ever received when working as an RSE? What kind of tech/architecture do you use? What tech would you like to learn next and why?
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Hi All, I realised that I didn't explicitly ask for your approval to use your profiles for social media, websites and print, and for distribution to other organisations where this might be of benefit to the RSE community. Could you please respond either by editing your profile post (in #59) or by replying to me at [email protected]. Totally OK if you want to limit it or take it out, but it's better to have this explicitly discussed before we move ahead. And thanks for sharing your profile, it has been fantastic reading them! Apologies in advance as I will also be posting this in the issues folder and sending an email to all RSE email list. |
Hey @rowlandm I've edited mine and am happy for it to be shared publicly. All the best Jonny |
Hey @LindsayBradford - are you OK if we use your profile in social media etc? |
Name: Position Description: Institution: Why do I consider myself an RSE?: What do I do that is most valued by the people I'm helping?: How many times have you been given short term contracts (less than 1 year) while working in research? What is the nicest compliment you have ever received when working as an RSE? What kind of tech/architecture do you use? What tech would you like to learn next and why?
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Name: Position Description: Institution: Why do I consider myself an RSE? What do I do that is most valued by the people I'm helping? How many times have you been given short term contracts (less than 1 year) while working in research? What is the nicest compliment you have ever received when working as an RSE? What kind of tech/architecture do you use? What tech would you like to learn next and why?
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It's OK to share this in things related to the RSE community :) Position Description: Institution: Why do I consider myself an RSE?: What do I do that is most valued by the people I'm helping?: How many times have you been given short term contracts (less than 1 year) while working in research? What is the nicest compliment you have ever received when working as an RSE? What kind of tech/architecture do you use? What tech would you like to learn next and why? |
Name: Position Description: Institution: Why do I consider myself an RSE?
What do I do that is most valued by the people I'm helping? How many times have you been given short term contracts (less than 1 year) while working in research? What is the nicest compliment you have ever received when working as an RSE? What kind of tech/architecture do you use? What tech would you like to learn next and why?
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Name: Position Description: Institution: Why do I consider myself an RSE?: What do I do that is most valued by the people I'm helping?:
How many times have you been given short term contracts (less than 1 year) while working in research? What is the nicest complient you have ever received when working as an RSE? What kind of tech/architecture do you use?
What tech would you like to learn next and why?
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Bill Pascoe Position Description: Institution: Why do I consider myself an RSE?: What do I do that is most valued by the people I'm helping?: How many times have you been given short term contracts (less than 1 year) while working in research? What is the nicest compliment you have ever received when working as an RSE? What kind of tech/architecture do you use? What tech would you like to learn next and why?
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Hi All,
This is part of our deliverables #51 so I thought I would add this in so that people could add in their own profile.
PLEASE NOTE THAT THESE WILL BE MADE PUBLIC. By adding them in your are OK with us making this public and using it in material in print, social media, on the website etc.
I'll start mine in the next comment.
[Update: I have no idea what the profiles will look like, so please use mine as a template but feel free to add your own questions and answers!]
[Update: Reminder that the rse skills that are most underestimated are training and sys admin]
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