Payton Rodman

Payton Rodman

Software Engineer, Cloud

Darktrace

Biography

Hi, I’m Payton!

I am a software engineer with a background in physics simulations and a love for effective data communication. I currently work as a Software Engineer at Darktrace, building real-time Cloud solutions. I am also an avid puzzler, problem-solver, and bug finder, and am always searching for new ways to improve my coding craft.

Before moving to the UK, I studied physics and applied mathematics at the University of Tasmania in Australia, where I received my Bachelors (2017) and Honours (2018) degrees. In 2024, I was awarded my PhD in Astronomy from the University of Cambridge, supported by the Gates Cambridge Scholarship.

You can find a PDF copy of my CV here: Download my CV

Interests

  • Astrophysics
  • High-Performance Programming
  • Simulation
  • Data Analysis
  • Data Visualisation
  • Succulents

Education

  • PhD in Astronomy, 2024

    University of Cambridge

  • BSc (Hons) in Physics, 2018

    University of Tasmania

  • BSc in Physics and Applied Mathematics, 2017

    University of Tasmania

Tech Stack

python

Python

cplusplus

C++

sqlite

SQLite

graphql

GraphQL

redis

Redis

fastapi

FastAPI

aws

AWS

azure

Azure

gcp

GCP

Projects

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All Astronomy and Astrophysics Machine Learning Simulation Data Analysis Completed Work In Progress

Evolution of the Magnetic Field in High- and Low-β Disks with Initially Toroidal Fields

A brief look at the first half of my PhD

Radio Jet Filament Formation in a Magnetised Medium

A brief look at the second half of my PhD

Classifying plant disease status with CNNs

Comparing simple models vs pretrained.

Comparing daily pressure variation across the globe

A personal project exploring worldwide pressure variation data.

Converting meeting times between timezones

A tiny personal project to help me never miss a meeting!

Using radio lobes to measure galaxy cluster properties (Honours thesis)

A brief description of the work I did in 2018 as part of my Honours thesis at the University of Tasmania.

The spectral signature of interstellar scintillation

A project I undertook in the summer of 2016/2017 with CSIRO in Perth, WA.

Extreme scattering events

A short side-project to my work at CASS

Environment as a cause of radio source asymmetry

An analysis of AGN jet properties in different clustering environments.

Selected Publications

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Magnetic Field Evolution in Black Hole Accretion Disks and Relativistic Jets

Supermassive black holes (SMBHs) catalyse change in their host galaxies, mediated through the inflow and subsequent outflow of material …
P E Rodman
PDF Project Project DOI
Magnetic Field Evolution in Black Hole Accretion Disks and Relativistic Jets

Evolution of the Magnetic Field in High- and Low-β Disks with Initially Toroidal Fields

We present the results from a pair of high-resolution, long-timescale ($\sim10^5~{\rm GM/c^3}$), global, three-dimensional …
P E Rodman, C S Reynolds
PDF Code Project DOI
Evolution of the Magnetic Field in High- and Low-β Disks with Initially Toroidal Fields

Radio Galaxy Zoo: observational evidence for environment as the cause of radio source asymmetry

We investigate the role of environment on radio galaxy properties by constructing a sample of large ($\gtrsim~100$ kpc), nearby …
P E Rodman, R J Turner, S S Shabala, J K Banfield, O I Wong, H Andernach, A F Garon, A D Kapińska, R P Norris, L Rudnick
PDF Project DOI
Radio Galaxy Zoo: observational evidence for environment as the cause of radio source asymmetry

Probing Intracluster Gas with Faraday Rotation from Black Hole Jets

This thesis presents an analysis of the effectiveness of Faraday Rotation and its associated measures in helping to constrain the …
P E Rodman
PDF Project
Probing Intracluster Gas with Faraday Rotation from Black Hole Jets