Ruby Van Rooyen
Technical Specialist Tech Lead Product Owner at TOPIC Embedded Systems
North Brabant, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolRuby Van Rooyen is a senior technical specialist, tech lead and product owner with over two decades of scientific and engineering experience and 13 years in industry-grade software and systems roles. She specialises in DSP, real-time scientific data pipelines and the integration of AI-assisted development into CI/CD-driven embedded systems, having led verification and subsystem integration for flagship radio astronomy projects like MeerKAT and SKA Low. Comfortable bridging research and product delivery, she designs data strategies and predictive reporting that unify engineering and business metrics, and she runs hands-on implementations using GitLab CI, Kubernetes, Python and MATLAB. Ruby pairs deep mathematical training (MSc, cum laude) with practical system engineering across telecom, aerospace and instrumentation domains, and she has a track record of mentoring researchers while delivering FAT/SAT milestones under Agile/SAFe. An advocate for privacy-aware LLM adoption, she trains teams to leverage Copilot/ChatGPT to boost productivity and test coverage—fueled, she says, by coffee and open source practices.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Supplementary Courses, Supplementary Courses at University of StellenboschB.Sc. Hons., Applied Mathematics, Cum Laude, B.Sc. Hons., Applied Mathematics, Cum Laude at University of the Free State/Universiteit van die VrystaatSAAO Summer SchoolSA Army Women’s CollegeMatriculate, A Average, Matriculate, A Average at High School JBM HertzogSupplementary Courses, Supplementary Courses at Eagle TechnologyMaster of Science (M.Sc.), Engineering Sciences, Cum Laude, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Engineering Sciences, Cum Laude at Stellenbosch UniversitySupplementary Courses, Supplementary Courses at Pentech
English, Afrikaans, Dutch
Github Skills (30)
observation10
spectrum10
brain-computer-interface10
telescope10
hyperion10
gnuradio10
reduction9
synthesis9
calibration8
fundamentals8
data-access7
python7
radio-astronomy6
pipeline6
astronomy5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ska-sa/astrokat
Jul 2018 - Jun 2021
General observation framework for the MeerKAT telescope
Contributions:42 reviews, 587 commits, 42 PRs in 2 years 11 months
meerkatobservationtelescope
ska-sa/radio-astronomy-for-beginners
Jul 2019 - Oct 2020
Contributions:27 commits, 4 pushes in 1 year 3 months
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