Toby Potter

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ABOUT ME

Computational physicist

I am passionate about using computational techniques to solve problems and helping others to do the same. Contact me and we'll see how we can get your problem solved! I am a former academic with a background in Astrophysics, Geophysics, and science communication and have served as a computational physicist for The University of Western Australia and Woodside Energy. I regularly engage with both industry and academia in consulting and scientific software development roles.

English

Melbourne (+10:00)

Joined August 2017

EXPERTISE

Python

8 years experience | 2 endorsements

For over 9 years I have been using Python to process and visualise data. I am passionate about teaching what I have learnt so it can add ...

For over 9 years I have been using Python to process and visualise data. I am passionate about teaching what I have learnt so it can add value to your business. I regularly teach courses in Python for a variety of STEM-related applications.

C++

7 years experience | 1 endorsement

During my PhD and postdoctoral work I wrote a number of scientific computing applications that use some of the advanced features of C++, ...

During my PhD and postdoctoral work I wrote a number of scientific computing applications that use some of the advanced features of C++, like templated and classes, functions and inheritance. Using this experience I can help diagnose problems with and optimise your C and C++ algorithms.

Fortran

6 years experience

During my undergraduate and PhD studies I used and developed FORTRAN programs for computational fluid dynamics simulations.

High-Performance Computing Scientific Computing

CUDA

8 years experience

During my postdoctoral job I wrote a CUDA-enabled application that streamed data through multiple GPUs for synthetic seismic wave propaga...

During my postdoctoral job I wrote a CUDA-enabled application that streamed data through multiple GPUs for synthetic seismic wave propagation. My experience with CUDA has fallen behind lately as I am actively focussed on OpenCL as a more general purpose compute platform.

Physics

10 years experience | 1 endorsement

As a computational physicist I can help with mapping equations or ideas to code. As a physicist I can understand the maths and physical b...

As a computational physicist I can help with mapping equations or ideas to code. As a physicist I can understand the maths and physical basis for an algorithm, and as a scientific computing expert I can suggest ways that the algorithm can be expressed in code.

Algorithm design and analysis

OpenCL

1 year experience

I am keenly interested in this technology and have recently developed teaching courses in OpenCL as well as a general purpose compute fra...

I am keenly interested in this technology and have recently developed teaching courses in OpenCL as well as a general purpose compute framework to access OpenCL compute functionality from C, Fortran, and Python programs.

Data Science

10 years experience

REVIEWS FROM CLIENTS

5.0

(4 reviews)

Removed User

March 2022

Toby was extremely helpful with my queries on Computational Physics. He was extremely polite and knowledgeable with the concept I wanted to discuss with him and guided me through the things I needed to understand for my doubts. I would highly recommend him to anyone who is seeking help with coding in Computational Physics (or just any help in coding in general.)

Natalie Lauf

March 2018

Quality coding in addition to mentoring. Very helpful and instructive.

Natalie Lauf

February 2018

high quality work, brilliant mentor

SOCIAL PRESENCE

GitHub

compiler_magics

Compiler magics for use with Jupyter Notebooks

Python

jupyterlab_compiler_magics

Jupyterlab extension for compiler_magics

Python

EMPLOYMENTS

Business owner

Pelagos Consulting and Education

2016-07-01-Present

In my business I help customers translate mathematical ideas into highly performant software. I am looking for new opportunities at th...

In my business I help customers translate mathematical ideas into highly performant software. I am looking for new opportunities at the moment and your job of writing Python scripts to merge models looks great. I love explaining things to folks and enjoy being a team player. Looking forward to meeting with you!

High-Performance Computing