John Hodrien

John was a Research Software Engineer working within the Research IT team at the University of Leeds. Starting life as a Computer Scientist at Leeds; he taught parallel programming (C/C++, MPI/pthreads) before becoming a researcher within the Visualisation and Virtual Reality research group, all within the School of Computing. In these research roles he has developed systems for working with pathology data with high resolution display clusters and worked on a number of research projects on e-Science/Grid Computing. More recent work within IT involved providing and supporting a range of predominantly Linux solutions to research and teaching within Engineering and more recently became a leader of this provision for the whole University. John has worked with a number of languages such as C/C++, Java, and Fortran, along with associated toolchains like Git, and has a soft spot for configuration management tools like Puppet, which has been used to provide standard configuration and deployment of systems and solutions at Leeds. John has moved on to work as Principal Teaching and Research Support Specialist in the School of Computing at the University of Leeds.