About

Robert Clucas is a highly skilled software developer with a passion for compilers, high performance C++, computer graphics, parallel computing, concurrency, and low latency programming. He is currently finishing his PhD at the University of Cambridge, where he has been working on GPU acceleration in the context of multi-phase and cut-cell fluid dynamics. Robert has significant experience with GPGPU programming, optimization heterogeneous systems, and multi-threading. Robert's preferred programming languages are C++, Rust, and Python, and he enjoys working on low-level applications where knowledge of the hardware is useful. He is constantly striving to improve the quality of the software he develops and spends a lot of his free time writing C++ libraries and documentation for functionality he has found useful. He also spends a lot of time writing C++ accelerated Python code and reading about performance optimization and general programming patterns/standard library features. In his past roles, Robert has worked as a Software Engineer at Netronome, where he refactored in-house packet generation software to use a faster, custom memory allocator, improving performance by up to 60%. He also patched an open source packet generation engine to support Netronome's network card drivers and provided example scripts to generate traffic patterns suitable for Netronome's network card. He has also worked as an Engineering Intern at Symmetry Electronics, where he designed and helped bring to market the WAB1 board, an add-on board that bridges Bluetooth low energy and cellular technologies. Robert has a PhD in Physics from the University of Cambridge, where he focused on scientific computing. He also has an MPhil in Scientific Computing from the University of Cambridge and a BSc in Electrical Engineering (Information Option) from the University of the Witwatersrand. Robert's tech stack includes software engineering, Python, machine learning, testing, and iOS. With 4.36 years of relevant experience, Robert is a highly skilled and dedicated software developer with a broad range of expertise.