Emily Selwood
Senior Software Engineer at natcap
Oxford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolEmily Selwood is a senior software engineer with 15 years’ experience specializing in geospatial and space-focused data processing, currently applying her expertise at natcap after an eight-year tenure at the Satellite Applications Catapult. She excels at turning large, noisy datasets into actionable intelligence and has deep practical knowledge of real-time and geospatial systems. An active open-source contributor, Emily has improved core astrodynamics tooling in the poliastro project—optimising orbital mechanics routines and CZML output to better support space-visualisation workflows. Based in Oxford, she combines rigorous engineering (BSc in Computing for Real Time Systems) with a genuine passion for planetary science and asteroids. Colleagues describe her as persistent and pragmatic: she incrementally makes complex systems more reliable and useful. She asks not just “can we build it?” but “how does this make the world better today?”
15 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BSC (Hons), Computing for Real Time Systems, BSC (Hons), Computing for Real Time Systems at University of the West of England
Github Skills (8)
mathematical10
orbital-mechanics10
python10
modeling10
astrodynamics10
numpy10
scientific-computing9
documentation7
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
poliastro/poliastro
Aug 2018 - May 2019
poliastro - :rocket: Astrodynamics in Python
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 commits, 4 PRs, 7 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Emily primarily contributed to core functionality within the poliastro repository, focusing on orbital mechanics calculations. They implemented a rotation matrix function and modified the `coe2rv` function to leverage it, improving the efficiency of state vector conversions. Additionally, they made refactoring changes to the `util.py` file and incorporated changes related to the CZML extraction process, indicating a focus on the core functionality of the library and its data output capabilities. Finally, they made updates to documentation, including an update to the CONTRIBUTING file.
celestial-mechanicspythonsciencescientific-computingastrodynamics
emilyselwood/gompcreader
Oct 2014 - Apr 2015
Contributions:32 commits, 27 pushes, 3 branches in 6 months
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