Louis Landes
Head Of Engineering at Seven Sisters Mission
Greater Adelaide Area Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolLouis Landes is a Head of Engineering with 14 years of experience leading multidisciplinary software teams and delivering mission-oriented systems from cloud IoT pipelines to flight software for satellites. Based in Adelaide, he combines hands-on backend and embedded expertise (Go, Python, C) with cloud architecture on AWS and custom Linux buildroot environments, and currently oversees recruitment and agile practices at Fleet Space Technologies. He has a strong astronomy and high-performance computing background—leading development of the TAO science platform, designing partitioned TB-scale data imports and novel geometry queries—and contributes to notable open-source projects like CKAN. Comfortable spanning full-stack web apps, CI-driven test automation, and RTOS/Linux flight stacks, he brings a practical systems mindset geared toward space missions, with an explicit goal to help enable crewed missions to Mars.
14 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Melbourne
Stackoverflow
11reputation
3kreached
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Github Skills (17)
unit-testing10
python10
testing10
ckan10
test-integration10
test-unit10
unit-test10
integration-testing10
api9
open-data8
user-data8
data-model8
data-set8
catalog8
database-design7
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
ckan/ckan
Apr 2016 - May 2016
CKAN is an open-source DMS (data management system) for powering data hubs and data portals. CKAN makes it easy to publish, share and use data. It powers catalog.data.gov, open.canada.ca/data, data.humdata.org among many other sites.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:15 commits, 9 PRs, 23 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Louis primarily contributed to the back-end logic and testing of the CKAN data management system. Their work involved fixing typos in action/create docstrings, adding tests for creating custom organization types, and allowing filtering on group types during organization listings. They also made changes related to user authentication and the handling of resource downloads. The user demonstrates strong skills in Python development and test creation within the CKAN framework.
portalspythondatadata-catalogdbpedia
Psykar/MM-LastFmImportPython
Aug 2012 - Jun 2013
Contributions:2 releases, 17 commits, 2 tags in 10 months
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