Dana Simard
Software Engineer at Google
Pasadena, California, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolDana Simard is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building scientific software and data systems for radio astronomy, currently contributing at Google after a postdoc at Caltech. She has a strong track record of turning complex physical models and high-throughput instrument data (multi-TB/s) into science-ready products, including automated calibration services that saved $35k/year and imaging pipelines that halved localization errors. Dana led a 6-person team commissioning the 63-element DSA-110 array, implementing continuous monitoring that boosted detection power by over 60%. She combines production-grade Python, parallelization (Dask), and systems-level thinking to bridge research and operational infrastructure. A published researcher with a PhD from the University of Toronto, she’s driven by extracting insight from large datasets and designing reproducible, scalable pipelines that enable new discoveries.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Astronomy and Astrophysics at University of TorontoBachelor's Degree, Physics, 4.28/4.3, Bachelor's Degree, Physics, 4.28/4.3 at Queen's University
Github Skills (14)
routines9
calibration9
dsa9
astronomy8
traits8
python7
imaging7
visualizations5
cpp4
trigger3
medicine3
microscopy2
robust2
fourier-transform1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
dsa110/dsa110-calib
Oct 2019 - Dec 2022
Calibration routines for DSA-110 (Issues at https://github.com/dsa110/dsa110-issues)
Contributions:9 reviews, 555 commits, 32 PRs in 3 years 1 month
dsacalibrationroutines
dsa110/dsa110-meridian-fs
Feb 2020 - Jul 2022
Meridian fringestopping & integration for the DSA-110 (Issues at https://github.com/dsa110/dsa110-issues)
Contributions:19 PRs, 154 pushes, 13 branches in 2 years 5 months
dsa
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