David Simons
Model Developer at Ontario Power Generation
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolDavid Simons is a model developer and software engineer with nine years of experience building backend systems, production-cost and bidding optimization models, and data-driven analytics for the energy sector. He has led teams and shipped microservices that simulate and forecast renewable project performance and pricing, and was the lead developer for a Locational Marginal Emissions data product used in energy trading and analysis. His background spans utility-scale power modeling, agile delivery of R/Python/SQL pipelines, and web/desktop app development, with roles at REsurety, Enel X, Lyft, and Ontario Power Generation. Comfortable bridging domain experts and production engineering, he brings both power-system modeling expertise and practical software craftsmanship—an engineer who moved from travel apps back to the energy industry by design.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
International Chinese Language Program, International Chinese Language Program at National Taiwan UniversityMaster of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBachelor’s Degree Engineering Science, Bachelor’s Degree Engineering Science at University of TorontoBachelor’s Degree Linguistics, Bachelor’s Degree Linguistics at McGill University
English, Chinese, French
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Github Skills (24)
r-package10
cran10
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development-environment9
frame9
git-svn8
inline8
ide8
devtools8
rstudio8
renv8
svn7
editor6
documentation5
bitbucket5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
d-sci/hover-BE
Feb 2017 - Apr 2017
Contributions:52 pushes, 4 branches in 2 months
d-sci/roxygen2
Jul 2020 - Apr 2021
Generate R package documentation from inline R comments
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 9 months
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