Bruno Quint
Commissioning Verification Scientist
La Serena, Coquimbo Region, Chile
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Top SchoolBruno Quint is a commissioning and verification scientist with 12 years’ experience building and validating astronomical instruments and data pipelines, currently supporting the Vera Rubin Observatory from La Serena. He combines a strong physics background (MSc, Universidade de São Paulo) with hands-on software development in Python, MATLAB and CI/testing for observatory pipelines, gained at Gemini, SOAR and university instrument projects. Bruno is skilled at instrument characterization, observational astronomy and creating easy-to-use tools for astronomers, often translating complex optics and data-reduction needs into robust, documented software. Notably, his work spans both night‑time operations as a resident astronomer and backend pipeline engineering, giving him a rare operational-to-software perspective that improves commissioning outcomes.
12 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Physics, Bachelor's degree, Physics at Universidade Federal de Santa CatarinaUniversity of São Paulo
Portuguese, English, Spanish, Japanese
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Github Skills (68)
python10
astronomy10
core-library10
orbital-mechanics10
astrology10
gemini10
science10
reduction10
ubuntu9
energy9
ccd9
classification9
astrophysics9
astropy9
astrodynamics9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
lsst-sitcom/sitcomtn-019
Nov 2021 - Apr 2025
Observing Task Management Workflow Proposal
Contributions:1 review, 7 PRs, 16 pushes in 3 years 5 months
workflow-managementtask-managementobservingworkflow
b1quint/samfp-tools
Jul 2016 - Aug 2018
Contributions:6 releases, 7 PRs, 244 pushes in 2 years 1 month
samprocess-datashortsoar
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