Rob Walton
Founder & Aspiring Social Machinist at Social Machines
England, Canada
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Top SchoolRob Walton is a technical and organizational leader with over 14 years of hands-on software and systems experience and an 18-year arc in applied research and engineering. He founded Social Machines after a DPhil at Oxford where he developed mathematical models of shared perception and collective intentionality, blending rigorous theory with practical socio-technical design. At Diamond Light Source he scaled and led cross-functional software teams supporting 32 scientific instruments and advised senior leadership on scientific software strategy. More recently he built full-stack automation and governance tools for First Nations at Mighty Oaks, showing a talent for translating complex domain needs into reliable systems. Comfortable moving between code, people and theory, he combines deep engineering pedigree with an uncommon focus on how perception and organisation shape software-enabled communities.
14 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Ph.D., Electrical Engineering at University of AlbertaDPhil, Engineering Science, DPhil, Engineering Science at University of OxfordM.Sc., Electrical Engineering, M.Sc., Electrical Engineering at University of Calgary
Github Skills (93)
octave10
streamlit10
calculator10
condition10
reimplementation10
alfred-workflow10
spectrum10
diffraction10
raycasting10
cnc10
science9
developer-tools9
data-visualization9
python9
deep-learning9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
robwalton/linsimpy
Jan 2020 - Aug 2021
Linda process coordination on the pysim discrete event simulation framework
Contributions:19 commits, 3 PRs, 9 pushes in 1 year 7 months
pythonlindadiscrete-eventsimulation-frameworkcoordination
robwalton/alfred-taskpaper-workflow
Oct 2016 - Jun 2017
Alfred 3 workflow for TaskPaper
Contributions:6 releases, 58 commits, 38 pushes in 8 months
alfredalfred-3alfred-workflowalfred3-workflowworkflow
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