Hi there, I'm cortadocodes 👋

About me

I'm a Senior Software Engineer at Octue where I build data and cloud solutions for scientists. My work focuses on automating various parts of the wind industry (and sometimes other renewable energy tech) and, as a big fan of FOSS, I'm happy that the majority is open-source.

What I've been up to

Publications/conferences

• Aerosense project:
  • WindEurope conference presentation
  • WindEurope conference poster
  • WindTech International publication

Software

• Dockerising OpenFAST (NREL's wind farm/turbine simulation software) to aid its deployment as part of a serverless cloud analysis pipeline, making analyses highly parallelisable, automatable, and scalable - all without the need for costly permanent infrastructure
• Building Octue's Twined framework - an event-driven digital twin / microservices framework for easily running serverless digital twins and data services
  • Powers WindPioneers' WindQuest wind farm design software
  • Runs our OpenFAST and TurbSim data services
• Modernising WindQuest's staff admin app, delivering a 5x speed-up of daily staff workflows
• Writing a wind turbine "data gateway" for the Aerosense project that uploads data from turbine sensors to the cloud in real time for processing and storage
• Creating GraphQL APIs for Strands (our JSON schema version control and publishing system) and some other exciting upcoming apps...

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• Creating a global Elevations Service, API and python client that uses the NASA Copernicus dataset and the H3 hexagonal hierarchical coordinate system to provide the elevation of any coordinate on the planet
• Working on our other tools:
  • Creating a suite of tools to automate Octue's release flow based on Conventional Commits - automated release notes, Conventional Commit pre-commit hook, and semantic version checker
  • Writing a set of reusable workflows and GitHub Actions to automate deployment and management of Octue APIs and data services

Skills

• Cloud computing/engineering with a focus on event-driven serverless microservices
• Containerisation/dockerisation
• Writing REST and GraphQL Django APIs
• Writing and publishing python libraries
• Writing data services to automate and scale previously manual data processing
• Automating devops with GitHub Actions, pre-commit, and other tools

My approach

• Test-driven
• Modular
• Clean coding
• Automated CI/CD
• Conventional Commits for automated semantic releases and release notes