Chris Betters
Senior Research Fellow at University of Sydney
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Betters is a Senior Research Fellow and entrepreneur with a decade of experience designing, building and deploying compact photonic instruments that translate astronomical techniques into remote sensing and agricultural applications. He combines hands-on optics and hardware development with production-grade software for data acquisition, analysis and embedded control, routinely using Python data-science stacks alongside C, C++ and Rust for low-level systems. At the University of Sydney he progressed from PhD researcher to senior fellow while co-founding Sydney Photonics to commercialise advanced fibre-fed spectrographs and related technologies. His work on photonic lanterns and diffraction‑limited spectrographs highlights an uncommon blend of experimental characterisation and practical implementation, enabling instruments that decouple spectrograph performance from varying input sources. Based in Sydney, he bridges academia and industry to move cutting-edge photonics from lab prototypes into field-ready systems.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Sydney
Github Skills (17)
forge10
axis10
intrinsics9
zoneminder9
conda9
pinning9
smithy9
footprint9
camera9
data-capture8
trigger8
conda-forge7
controller6
python1
instrumentation1
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
christhechris/CUAVA_HSI_controller
Feb 2019 - Mar 2022
CUAVA HSI Controller
Contributions:1 release, 2 PRs, 6 pushes in 3 years 1 month
controllerhsi
Cube-OS/cubeOS
Apr 2020 - Jun 2021
Contributions:7 commits in 1 year 2 months
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