Paul Altin
Chief Scientist at Liquid Instruments
Canberra, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolPaul Altin is a Chief Scientist and co-founder with a decade of experience bridging experimental physics and applied software engineering to build precision measurement instruments. Based in Canberra, he has led hardware-software product development at Liquid Instruments from engineering and UX leadership to his current scientific leadership role, while maintaining an active research appointment at The Australian National University. His background as a PhD physicist and Alexander von Humboldt Fellow informs a pragmatic approach to designing, debugging and operating complex electromechanical and control systems at scale. Notably, he combines hands-on lab expertise with product-focused software development, turning experimental requirements into robust, user-facing instrumentation.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Australian National University
English, German
Github Skills (48)
asynchronous10
modular10
async10
networking10
socket10
overlapping10
ios9
working-directory9
json-parser9
json9
toolchain9
git-merge9
merge9
clang9
macos9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
paulaltin/git-hires-merge
Mar 2018 - Oct 2020
An interactive git merge driver which can resolve non-overlapping conflicts on individual or adjacent lines.
Contributions:34 commits, 13 PRs, 37 pushes in 2 years 7 months
merge-driverindividualresolvelinesmercurial
paulaltin/CocoaAsyncSocket
Feb 2016 - Mar 2020
Asynchronous socket networking library for Mac and iOS
Contributions:4 pushes, 5 branches in 4 years 2 months
socketasynchronousnetworkingmacios
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