Mike Croucher

Co-Founder

Leeds, England, United Kingdom20 yrs 8 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Over 25 years of experience in research computing.
Co-founder of one of the first RSE groups in the UK.
Expert in high performance computing and developer relations.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS-focused expert in research computing and developer relations.

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Skills

Core Skills

Developer RelationsPublic SpeakingCustomer ExperienceArtificial Intelligence (ai)Research ComputingHigh Performance ComputingResearch Software Engineering

Other Skills

Amazon Web Services (AWS)Open-Source SoftwareMatlabPythonTechnical DocumentationParallel ComputingGPGPUNumerical AnalysisScientific ComputingMathematicaMathematical ModelingCProgrammingApplied MathematicsFortran

About

I am a developer advocate at MathWorks, working with the community to accelerate the pace of technical computing. Prior to joining MathWorks I was was one the first wave of Research Software Engineers in academia. At the University of Sheffield, I was co-founder of one of the first academic Research Software Engineering groups in the UK and have over 25 years experience in the fields of research computing and HPC.

Experience

20 yrs 8 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 9 mos

Average Tenure

5 yrs 4 mos

Current Experience

Mathworks

2 roles

Principal Community Developer Advocate

Promoted

Dec 2024 – Present · 1 yr 5 mos

Developer RelationsPublic SpeakingAmazon Web Services (AWS)

Principal Customer Success Engineer

Jan 2021 – Dec 2024 · 3 yrs 11 mos

Open-Source SoftwareMatlabDeveloper RelationsPythonArtificial Intelligence (AI)Public Speaking+3

Nag (numerical algorithms group)

2 roles

Product Manager for Cloud Computing and Machine Learning

Feb 2020 – Dec 2020 · 10 mos

Developer RelationsPythonArtificial Intelligence (AI)Public SpeakingTechnical DocumentationCustomer Experience+1

Technical Evangelist

Jan 2019 – Feb 2020 · 1 yr 1 mo

Developer RelationsPythonArtificial Intelligence (AI)Public SpeakingTechnical DocumentationCustomer Experience+1

University of leeds

Head of Research Computing

Mar 2018 – Dec 2018 · 9 mos · Greater Leeds Area

Working as a member of the IT Executive Leadership Team, I am responsible for all advanced, cloud and high performance computing services, research software engineering and specialist IT support for research.

Open-Source SoftwareMatlabPythonArtificial Intelligence (AI)Public SpeakingTechnical Documentation+4

Http://rse.shef.ac.uk/

Co-founder of RSE Sheffield

Mar 2016 – Mar 2018 · 2 yrs · University of Sheffield

The Sheffield Research Software Engineering group provides software engineering and research computing support to all researchers at The University of Sheffield.

Open-Source SoftwareMatlabDeveloper RelationsPythonArtificial Intelligence (AI)Public Speaking+4

The university of sheffield

2 roles

EPSRC Research Software Engineering Fellow

Promoted

Jan 2016 – Mar 2018 · 2 yrs 2 mos

For more information concerning my fellowship program of work, please see the blog post at http://www.walkingrandomly.com/?p=5948

Open-Source SoftwareMatlabDeveloper RelationsPythonArtificial Intelligence (AI)Public Speaking+4

Research Software Engineer

Feb 2015 – Mar 2018 · 3 yrs 1 mo

The purpose of the Research Software Engineer post is to enhance the University’s capability and expertise in developing Research Software.

Open-Source SoftwareMatlabDeveloper RelationsPythonArtificial Intelligence (AI)Public Speaking+4

University of manchester

2 roles

Head of EPS IS Applications team

Jan 2012 – Feb 2015 · 3 yrs 1 mo

Head of a team providing advanced support for science and engineering applications. Some of our services include
We provide training and programming assistance to academic colleagues in languages such as MATLAB, Mathematica, Python, C and Fortran.
We provide code optimization to academics across the University in several languages including MATLAB, Mathematica and Python. We have sped up users' code by over 100 times in some cases.
MSI repackaging and deployment to over 6000 Windows workstations in cooperation with the University of Manchester Desktop Infrastructure team.
We liaise with the central High Performance Computing (HPC) team to provide applications support for Manchester's Computational Shared Facility.
We are part of a faculty team who run a 3000+ core High Throughput Computing (HTC) service.
We are part of a larger team who runs a set of network license servers for the faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences.
We provide third line support for the installation and configuration of several specialist applications.