Andre Young
Senior Products & Systems Engineer at Capgemini
Hengelo, Overijssel, Netherlands
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Top SchoolAndre Young is a Senior Products & Systems Engineer with 11 years of experience designing electronic instrumentation and software for scientific research, with a deep focus on radio astronomy. He has driven system engineering and monitor-and-control software for flagship projects like the Event Horizon Telescope and the Africa Millimetre Telescope, and contributed to on-board data processing architectures for space interferometry concepts. His background spans FPGA and GPU implementations—developing digital downconverters, adaptive beamformers, and real-time resampling systems—bridging hardware and software in high-throughput scientific pipelines. Having moved from academic research and postdoctoral roles into industry positions at S[&]T and Capgemini, he combines rigorous PhD-trained problem solving with product-minded delivery. Based in Hengelo, Netherlands, he brings practical experience turning complex interferometry theory into deployable systems that operate under tight performance and reliability constraints.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Stellenbosch University
Afrikaans, English, DutchProgramming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Smithsonian/sdbe
Apr 2015 - Aug 2018
Contributions:12 commits, 188 pushes, 13 branches in 3 years 4 months
sao-eht/r2dbe_software
Jan 2018 - Dec 2019
Contributions:1 PR, 37 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 10 months
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