This is a repository of Research Software Engineer Phenotypes, generated at https://rseng.github.io/rse-phenotype. It uses the Twitter Share Action to generate the link to share an image that you contribute to this repository via pull request. The image should end in *.png.
The act of creating the phenotype, in an of itself, can provide great insights. Thinking about the dimension(s) under which you (or a fellow Research Software Engineer) are defined can encourage introspection and reveal insights about different ways that we can define RSEs.
In addition, we've provided a listing of questions below to support this introspection. If you have additional questions to add, please don't hesitate to open an issue.
- What is a Research Software Engineer?: Based on your experience, how would you define a Research Software Engineer?
- What are the dimensions of a Research Software Engineer?: Do you see most RSEs being defined on a set of dimensions? For example, is it typical to see an RSE lie somewhere on a dimension between domain researcher and software engineer, or are there more dimensions?
- What are your primary roles? Break down your day to day life into percentages of what you do, who you interact with, etc.
- Why is this a relatively new role? and why did it come to be?
- If I'm an interested student, how do I become a Research Software Engineer? and if I'm an RSE, how do I get engaged with other RSEs?
- What are your primary goals? and specifically, what goals do you have for your community, and for yourself?
- What are some of the challenges that you face? On a day to day basis, what makes your life hard?
- How do you manage your own growth? Or is there an external method?
- What do you see as the future of RSEs? Specifically, how is the world now, and how do you want it to be?
- What makes you unique from other RSEs?
- How do you interact with others? Specifically, how do you interact with people at your institution, other institutions, and in industry?
- Are you active in open source? and do you think open source is a component of being an RSE?
- Tell us something funny or special about your institution
- How do you catch a Research Software Engineer in the wild?