Peter Simon
Software Engineer at Space Systems/Loral, LLC
Camarillo, California, United States
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Top SchoolPeter Simon is a retired antenna engineer and software engineer in Camarillo, California, with over 12 years of software experience layered on a multi-decade career designing satellite and RF antenna systems. He holds a Ph.D. in Computational Electromagnetics from UC Santa Barbara and authored custom engineering design software and numerical tools used for feed horns, phased arrays, Rotman lenses, polarizers and other complex RF subsystems. At Space Systems Loral he was a Distinguished Engineer who combined commercial EM tools with homegrown code, earning multiple patents including a novel feed-horn design optimization method. Now focused on open-source development in Julia, he brings deep physics-first expertise to scientific software and a practitioner’s understanding of bridging simulation, optimization, and practical hardware constraints.
12 years of coding experience
34 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Electrical Engineering (Computational Electromagnetics), Ph.D., Electrical Engineering (Computational Electromagnetics) at UC Santa BarbaraMSEE, Electrical Engineering: Antennas & EM, MSEE, Electrical Engineering: Antennas & EM at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (106)
programming-language10
julialang10
root-finding10
science10
julia10
numerical10
electrical-engineering10
polarization10
machine-learning10
hpc10
petsc10
factorization9
splines9
documentation-generator9
abaqus8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
simonp0420/TicraUtilities.jl
Aug 2024 - Jan 2025
Read/write Ticra compatible files, parse TOR files, generate/evaluate SWE expansions, and more
Contributions:22 PRs, 174 pushes, 21 branches in 4 months
antennaantennaselectromagnetic-simulationelectromagneticsmicrowave
simonp0420/PSSFSS.jl
Jun 2020 - Dec 2022
Analysis of Polarization and Frequency Selective Surfaces
Contributions:1 release, 249 commits, 85 PRs in 2 years 5 months
electromagneticsselectiveantennasfrequency-selective-surfaceselectrical-engineering
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