Ole Nielsen
Director. Digital Products And Services, Design And Technology at NSW Department of Customer Service
Canberra, Australia
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Top SchoolOle Nielsen is a seasoned digital products and technology leader with 19 years of experience delivering high‑impact, user-focused solutions across government and scientific organisations. He has driven organisational transformation and DevOps adoption to rapidly produce scalable data platforms and reproducible scientific pipelines—cutting processing times from weeks to hours and enabling whole-of-government analytics. His background blends a PhD in scientific computing with hands-on leadership of multidisciplinary teams that restructured around products rather than silos, and he has pioneered cloud automation, HPC and agile planning in domains from tsunami and hazard modelling to citizen services. Currently directing design and technology at Revenue NSW, he combines customer experience, continuous delivery and an evidence-based approach to unlock measurable public value.
20 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Student, math - biology, Student, math - biology at Koege GymnasiumTechnical University of DenmarkMSc, Mathematics and Computer Science, MSc, Mathematics and Computer Science at Roskilde University
Danish
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Github Skills (27)
simulation10
flooding10
python10
qgis10
mpi9
message-passing9
gis8
big-data8
insar7
geodesy7
django7
pep6
sdi6
geoscience6
geospatial5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
uniomni/video_processing
Apr 2019 - Jun 2025
Contributions:18 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 3 months
daleroberts/pypar
Jun 2007 - Jul 2013
Efficient and scalable parallelism using the message passing interface (MPI) to handle big data and highly computational problems.
Contributions:114 commits in 6 years 1 month
big-datamessage-passingmpimap-reducepython
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