Philip Welch
Founder at OPEN DOOR LOGISTICS LTD
Greater Melbourne Area Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolPhilip Welch is the founder of Open Door Logistics with over a decade leading real-time vehicle route optimisation and logistics software rooted in 20 years of domain expertise and an academic background as a PhD astrophysicist. He designs and ships production-grade optimisers and dispatching systems that combine operations research, ML/AI and heuristic solvers to improve freight efficiency and territory planning. Previously he led software teams and research projects across industry and academia—translating complex requirements into commercial optimisation products and EU-funded forecasting research. Based in Melbourne, he blends rigorous scientific training with hands-on C++, C# and Java development, and insists on direct client relationships rather than outsourcing partnerships. An understated strength is his habit of turning cutting-edge research papers into practical, deployable solvers for real-world logistics problems.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
MPhys, Astrophysics, MPhys, Astrophysics at Cardiff University / Prifysgol CaerdyddPhD, Astrophysics, PhD, Astrophysics at Queen Mary, U. of London
English, French
Github Skills (36)
openstreetmap10
public-transportation10
directions10
dijkstra10
starcraft10
geospatial10
map-matching10
astar10
java10
graphhopper10
nominatim10
pathfinding10
osrm10
logistics9
vehicle-routing-problem9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
PGWelch/territorium
Apr 2017 - Nov 2021
Territory optimisation algorithm
Contributions:1 release, 32 commits, 30 pushes in 4 years 7 months
territoryoptimization
PGWelch/speedregions
Sep 2016 - Sep 2018
Contributions:1 release, 22 commits, 19 pushes in 1 year 11 months
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