Mathematical physicist turned software developer - London, UK
I build research-grade data pipelines, production web applications, and everything in between. My background is in astrophysics, where I contributed to two peer-reviewed papers in The Astrophysical Journal modelling the dynamics of interstellar objects in the Milky Way. These days I apply the same analytical rigour to real-world software problems.
- Scientific computing - large-scale simulations, population models, and data pipelines for observational astronomy
- Full-stack development - React frontends, AWS infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and everything in between
- Systems programming - parallel computing with CUDA, MPI, and OpenMP; performance-critical libraries in C/C++ and Rust
| Project | Description |
|---|---|
| astrodrift | Parallel computing library (CUDA / MPI / OpenMP) for large-scale scientific data pipelines - used in the Ōtautahi-Oxford working group research |
| paua.sh | Deployed bash utility library with a CRUD REST API, OAuth 2.0 authentication, CDN delivery, and automated CI/CD publishing |
Most of my work lives on my self-hosted Forgejo instance at git.paua.sh.
- He Awa Whiria: The Tidal Streams of Interstellar Objects - The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 988, no. 1 (2025) - DOI - arXiv
- Semianalytic Orbits: A Practical Implementation of Lynden-Bell's Planar Orbits and Extension to Vertical Oscillations - The Astrophysical Journal (2026) - DOI