Colin Sauze
Senior Research Software Engineer at National Oceanography Centre
Wales, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolColin Sauze is a Senior Research Software Engineer at the UK’s National Oceanography Centre with 14 years of experience bridging research, HPC and field robotics. He has a PhD in bio-inspired power management for sailing robots and a track record of moving academic code into production environments, notably on the Supercomputing Wales project and automated greenhouse systems at the National Plant Phenomics Centre. Comfortable across systems administration, embedded software and big-data analytics, he combines hands-on development with operational ownership of complex research infrastructure. An active member and organiser in the robotic sailing community, he administers the Microtransat Challenge and has run international events that helped shape autonomous marine robotics. Based in Wales, he brings a rare mix of maritime autonomy expertise and practical HPC/software engineering.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), A Neuro-Endocrine Inspired Approach to Power Management in Sailing Robots, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), A Neuro-Endocrine Inspired Approach to Power Management in Sailing Robots at University of Wales, Aberystwyth
English, Italian, Welsh
Github Skills (82)
python10
energy10
sklearn10
automation10
alpha10
unix10
versioning10
shell10
stable10
machine-learning10
keras10
jstree10
job-scheduler9
electricity9
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Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
abersailbot/boatd
Aug 2019 - Mar 2023
Robotic sailing boat daemon
Contributions:6 PRs, 6 pushes, 2 issues in 3 years 7 months
roboticspythondaemonboatsailing
NOC-OI/favourite-places
Feb 2023 - Jan 2026
A repository for practicing collaborating with git.
Contributions:13 PRs, 28 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 11 months
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