Athanaseus Ramaila
Junior Software Engineer at SKA South Africa
Western Cape, South Africa
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Top SchoolAthanaseus Ramaila is a Junior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building telescope operational software at SKA South Africa, bringing full lifecycle development discipline to large-scale scientific systems. He blends a strong physics and astrophysics foundation (MSc Physics, Rhodes University; BSc Astrophysics, University of the Free State) with practical skills in Linux, DSP, DevOps and observational astronomy to bridge research requirements and production software. Comfortable in research environments, he has a track record of delivering reliable, instrument-facing code and supporting operational workflows. Based in the Western Cape, he combines academic rigor with hands-on software engineering and an uncommon focus on signal-processing challenges within astronomical instrumentation.
10 years of coding experience
Bachelor’s Degree, Astrophysics, Bachelor’s Degree, Astrophysics at University of the Free StateMaster’s Degree, Physics, Master’s Degree, Physics at Rhodes University
English, sotho, Bantu, Zulu
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Github Skills (99)
image-masking10
scripting10
pogo10
workflow-management10
astronomical-algorithms10
xml-parser10
calibration10
plot9
pipeline9
astronomy9
singularity-container9
image-viewer9
docker9
python-extension9
radio-astronomy9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
Athanaseus/Drastic-sims
Apr 2017 - May 2019
Diverse radio astronomy imaging contest simulations
Contributions:23 PRs, 23 pushes, 28 branches in 2 years
imaging
ratt-ru/breizorro
Oct 2020 - Oct 2022
Image masking tool(s) possibly of Breton spiritual origin
Contributions:9 releases, 7 reviews, 21 commits in 1 year 11 months
image-masking
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