Mars Buttfield-addison
Contract Software Engineer at University of Tasmania
Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
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Top SchoolMars Buttfield-Addison is a contract software engineer and PhD candidate in computer engineering at the University of Tasmania with nine years of professional experience spanning research, teaching, telescope operations, and freelance app and game development. Based in Hobart, they combine hands‑on software development with radio telescope data processing research, contributing to both academic projects (including work with CSIRO) and practical tooling like the Yarn Spinner community. They regularly teach and tutor across data science and AI topics, translating complex concepts for diverse learners through university roles and educational content creation. As a founder of a regional science centre initiative and an independent technology consultant, Mars brings an entrepreneurial, community-focused mindset to technical challenges. Colleagues describe them as someone who bridges academia and applied engineering, shipping user-facing applications while advancing instrumentation and data analytics behind the scenes.
9 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Information and Communication Technology, Software Development, Bachelor of Information and Communication Technology, Software Development at University of Tasmania
English
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Github Skills (72)
minecraft10
dialogue-systems10
fabric10
game-development10
tabletop10
framework710
spinner10
skill10
unity3d10
oms10
conversations10
forge9
serve9
wwdc9
deep-reinforcement-learning8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
TheMartianLife/StarTrek_AppleWatchFaces
Dec 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:16 commits, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 12 days
AIwithSwift/AIwithSwift.github.io
Jul 2018 - Jan 2019
Contributions:254 commits, 180 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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