Mr. Tom McAdam

Senior Research Software Engineer

Mr. Tom McAdam

Tom is part of the Model Release Team at ACCESS-NRI and leads the tracking, reporting and experiment provenance efforts contributing to continuous integration and deployment infrastructure.

Tom has a MSc Geographic Information Systems from University of Ulster (2013), and a BSc Surveying and Mapping Science from University of Newcastle upon Tyne (2002).

Tom has a strong background in scientific software development with previous experience at Geoscience Australia and Monash University, working with large datasets and compute intensive processes in both commercial cloud and HPC environments. Tom enjoys working with well architected and maintainable systems and is looking forward to learning more about the climate modelling domain.

Outside of work, Tom enjoys the outdoors, hiking and exploring with his family. He enjoys tinkering with microcontrollers, electronics, drones, and 3D printing, also contributing to drone related opensource software projects.