Samuel Bennett
Vice President at Goldman Sachs
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolSamuel Bennett is a Vice President and seasoned software engineer with 12 years of experience building robust systems across finance and multiple industries, currently leading technical efforts at Goldman Sachs in London. He combines hands-on engineering with rapid domain onboarding, thriving on projects that span limited institutional knowledge and complex stakeholder landscapes. His background includes short-term contracts in cybersecurity, logistics, medical and consumer apps, giving him a pragmatic, cross-domain perspective on product and delivery trade-offs. An active contributor to scientific open-source software, he has improved solar physics tooling in the well-known SunPy project by enhancing map rotation and IRIS data alignment. A first-class MEng in Computer Science from Southampton underpins his technical breadth and ability to refactor and extend legacy codebases. Colleagues rely on him for translating ambiguous requirements into maintainable, production-ready solutions.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Merchant Taylors' NorthwoodMEng, Computer Science, 1st, MEng, Computer Science, 1st at Southampton University
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Github Skills (6)
sun10
solar10
python10
astrophysics10
astronomy10
data-analysis10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
sunpy/sunpy
Nov 2013 - Feb 2014
SunPy - Python for Solar Physics
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 reviews, 27 commits, 8 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Samuel primarily contributed to the `sunpy/sunpy` repository by modifying existing code and adding new methods related to solar physics data processing and analysis. Their work included refactoring code in the `iris.py` module for optional indexing and adapting the `GenericMap.rotate` function to accept rotation matrices. Additionally, the user implemented a new method `iris_rot` within the `IRISMap` class to align IRISMap data based on header information, improving data handling.
physicspythonsolarsimulationpython-3
CyclingNinja/package-template
Feb 2024 - Dec 2024
A cookiecutter template for packages that want to have a similar setup to sunpy
Contributions:123 pushes, 15 branches in 10 months
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