Attila Kovacs
Physicist at Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie
Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolAttila Kovacs is an owner and seasoned software engineer with over a decade of experience building high-performance control, signal-processing, and data-reduction software for astronomical observatories. He designed core control systems for the SMA and the MIT Haystack 37-m telescope and authored CRUSH, a widely used reduction/imaging pipeline that turns ~100 GB of raw detector data into science-ready images in minutes, including on NASA's SOFIA. Combining a PhD in submillimeter astrophysics with hands-on expertise in Java, C/C++, and CUDA, he focuses on clever algorithms, robust statistics, and highly efficient implementations to meet real-time operational constraints. Based in Bonn, he runs Sigmyne LLC delivering custom readout, imaging, and analysis solutions for astronomy, bridging detector technologies, observational science, and production software. An uncommon strength is shipping mission-critical code that scales from instrument readout to full observatory pipelines while keeping compute and latency budgets exceptionally low.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
California Institute of TechnologyA.B. Physics, Astrophysics and Astronomy, A.B. Physics, Astrophysics and Astronomy at Harvard UniversityI.B. Physics, Math, Economics, I.B. Physics, Math, Economics at UWC of the Adriatic (UWCAD)
English, Hungarian, German, Italian
Github Skills (39)
c-language10
astronomy10
windows10
open-source10
linux10
cmake10
java10
ruby10
fits10
homebrew10
visual-studio10
vcpkg10
macos10
cpp10
data-exchange9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
Smithsonian/SMA-Software
Nov 2017 - Aug 2020
Contributions:2258 pushes, 197 branches, 4 comments in 2 years 9 months
nom-tam-fits/blackbox-images
May 2016 - Mar 2024
Contributions:1 PR, 2 pushes in 7 years 10 months
nomtamfitsblackbox
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