Developer Stories

The questions often don't change, but the answers do.

Deciding where to operate on the graph of science can have huge implications for impact.

For our 100th episode, we bring in an immensely insightful leader to talk about the future of HPC.

Performance for achieving science.

Storage, or more generally patterns of I/O, is hard to get right.

Some quick thoughts about emerging talent in HPC, and what might get in the way.

The path to a career in high performance computing is not always equitable or clear.

Whether it's CPU, car engines, or learning and desire for knowledge, feed us!

What should you work on? The answer to this question is between your ears.

A journey in tech from learning, to adventure and excitement and belonging

Wolf was a huge power behind conda, mamba, and now is leading his own vision at Prefix

A journey from the 'Middle Ages' to modern HPC distributed programming and cloud models for computing

Solving problems by building tools.

For this Halloween special episode, we listen to a story with turns and twists, and give pause to the eerie passing of time, and love.

This interview is Groovy, baby! Not only do we talk about the language, but some really groovy work being done for workflows and containers.

When your travels take you around the world for the love of science and learning.

Growing real world expertise and technological skill into a business.

The realities and joys of moving to Germany to start a Life Sciences Consulting Company.

A journey from scientist to programmer and consultant through an insightful and deep conversation.

Navigating a path to contribute to scientific research can be a challenge.

Today's episode is an adventure - from hacking the German army to starting a company!

What could help with organizing the space of research software engineer skills and roles? We have some ideas!

Whether he's developing container standards or security, Brandon is inspired to give back, and create a better ecosystem for tomorrow.

Chris Gorgolewski shares his journey through research, software engineering, and developer experiences.

A look behind the scenes of our beloved Dr. Cuff

For this Halloween 2022, we are having some fun to share some of tech's horror stories!

Fernanda isn't sure if it was genetics or fate that led her to high performance computing, but she's come a long way, and is grateful for the journey

Six past Early Career Program participants tell us about their experiences in the program and why others should apply as part of Supercomputing 2022.

Data engineering is an increasingly important part of research software engineering, and Ana tells us why.

Marina Kraeva of Iowa State University leads the planning of the Early Career Program this year at Supercomputing 2022.

Daniel's story tells us about research software engineering in biotech.

Jay Lofstead of Sandia National Laboratories has some big plans for the Inclusivity Committee at Supercomputing 2022.

Megan Phinney brings excitement and energy to the HPC community, and her story started with a cool pen.

Rowland has insights about opportunity and inclusion that have potential to change how you think.

Peter was one of the original voices of RSE Stories as a host, and now we've flipped the mic to hear his story!

In this 70th episode, Computational Scientist Peter Vaillancourt shares what he's learned about diversity and reflects on the challenges our community faces.

Chase Million saw a world of work that he wanted to do, but not via a traditional academic route.

Tim Haines is a quintessential passionate learner, and will tell you all about astrophysics, compilers, and systems.

Lou was excited for his favorite holiday, Halloween, but he couldn't have predicted how an Open Source Halloween would change his life.

Alec Scott is always building things, and takes his servers with him from home to college.

Michael Heroux of Sandia National Laboratories has a rich history with development and leadership for scientific software.

Robin Wilson is an academic freelancer that tells us a story of strength, and humor.

Kalina is a research software engineer that specializes in Scientific Visualization, and combines science, the arts, and technology to make stunning cinematic performances.

Kate Court made the exciting journey from Arts and Humanities to computer science. On the way she enthusiastically helps communities build confidence in digital technologies.

The story of the RSE Stories podcast host, a passionate developer, and avocado loving dinosaur.

Meet Mark Abraham from the EuroCC National Competence Centre Sweden and one of the guardians of the Gromacs open source library.

Edd Salkield is a research software engineer and founder of Dreaming Spires, a research software consultancy bringing together developers and researchers.

Frank Loeffler is one of the founding members of the German RSE association. In this episode he takes us through the process to build a community more or less from scratch.

Daniel Nüst is a research software engineer with interest and expertise ranging from reproducibility to geoinformatics. His journey has taken him from industry, to graduate training, to asking fundamental questions about how we do research, and how the process could be changed for the better.

Meet Mark Turner, Head of the RSE team at Newcastle University in the UK. In this episode we discuss the transition from engineer to manager and how to build effective RSE teams.