Simon Bowly
Senior Developer at Gurobi Optimization
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolSimon Bowly is a Senior Developer and optimisation specialist with 11 years of experience applying mathematical modelling and software engineering to real-world logistics and energy problems. After a PhD researching Mixed Integer Programming and a postdoctoral focus on discrete optimisation for rail logistics, he now builds and supports optimisation software at Gurobi, bridging advanced algorithms with production-grade Python, Java and cloud systems. His background spans research, consulting and product engineering—from evolving hard benchmarking instances to delivering automated SCADA analytics—giving him a rare mix of theoretical depth and pragmatic implementation. Based in Melbourne, he combines academic rigor with hands-on experience shipping optimisation solutions that scale in industry settings.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Kardinia International College, GeelongExchange Program, Applied Mathematics, Dynamic Analysis, Exchange Program, Applied Mathematics, Dynamic Analysis at KTH Royal Institute of TechnologyThe University of MelbourneBachelor of Engineering (Mechanical) and Bachelor of Science, Computational and Applied Mathematics, First Class Honours, Bachelor of Engineering (Mechanical) and Bachelor of Science, Computational and Applied Mathematics, First Class Honours at Monash University
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Github Skills (51)
plotly10
optimization10
mathematical-programming10
mixed-integer-programming10
python10
cvxpy10
convex-optimization10
nonlinear-programming10
mathematical-optimization10
gurobi10
alembic10
sqlalchemy10
convex10
numerical-optimization10
linear-programming10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Gurobi/gurobipy-pandas
May 2022 - Mar 2023
Convenience wrapper for building optimization models from pandas data
Contributions:13 releases, 273 commits, 48 PRs in 9 months
gurobigurobipypandaspython
simonbowly/gurobi-optimods
Jun 2023 - Jun 2024
Nice APIs for common optimization tasks
Contributions:92 pushes, 26 branches in 1 year
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