Phillip Coles
Software Engineer at SMi Systems
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolPhillip Coles is a software engineer with 8 years of experience building distributed control systems and high-performance computing software for large scientific facilities, currently working on monitoring, control and calibration at SMi Systems for the Square Kilometer Array Observatory. He holds a PhD in theoretical molecular physics and combines deep domain knowledge with practical engineering, having implemented detector control systems for the European Southern Observatory and optimized matrix-heavy codes on DiRAC HPC platforms. Phillip excels at translating complex scientific requirements into robust, scalable control and calibration software, and brings hands-on expertise in performance-oriented diagonalisation and distributed architectures. Based in Cambridge, he pairs research-grade rigor with industry delivery, often bridging physics, HPC and systems engineering in multidisciplinary teams.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSci), Physics, 1st Class Honours, Master of Science (MSci), Physics, 1st Class Honours at University of NottinghamUniversity College London
Github Skills (2)
python4
bibtex4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
PhillipAColes/ExoMatch
Apr 2020 - Jul 2020
Contributions:29 pushes in 2 months
PhillipAColes/Assignment
Sep 2019 - Feb 2020
Contributions:15 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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