I am a Research Software Engineer at the University of Oxford creating free and open source software for autonomous microscopes and image analysis. I studied a degree in Biology and earned a PhD in Biochemistry through reproducible research in histone sequences and chromatin live-cell imaging.

I am involved in multiple free and open source software projects. Besides the Python Microscope and Cockpit packages, I'm a developer of the GNU Octave programming language, the Octave-Forge Image package, and was the leader of the Octave-Forge project between 2011 and 2017. I am a maintainer of BioPerl and Debian packages, authored Dist::Zilla and Pod::Weaver plugins and syntax highlight for different languages in GtkSourceView, and edit Wikipedia. I have contributed to other projects.