Simon Funke
Tech Lead Data Science
Oslo, Norway
Summary
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Top SchoolSimon Funke is a tech lead and founder with 15 years’ experience bridging scientific research and production-grade software, currently leading Data Science at Properate from Oslo. With a PhD in Computational Science and a history of directing 50+ experts at Simula Research Laboratory, he specializes in combining physics-informed modelling, scientific machine learning and scalable engineering. He has founded and exited a product business (alacalc.com) and runs a consulting boutique helping companies apply ML and scientific computing to real problems. An active contributor to scientific open-source—improving testing and reliability for the Firedrake finite-element project—he brings a strong emphasis on software quality and reproducibility. Colleagues rely on him for turning complex PDE-constrained optimisation and simulation work into robust, deployable systems.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Essentials of Leadership course, Essentials of Leadership course at London Business SchoolPhD Computational Science, PhD Computational Science at Imperial College LondonMaster's degree Mathematics, Master's degree Mathematics at Technical University of MunichA-level, A-level at Ohm Gymnasium Erlangen
norwegian (basic)
Github Skills (8)
unit-testing10
firedac10
finite-element-analysis10
el10
f10
python10
test-automation10
forms9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
firedrakeproject/firedrake
Oct 2013 - Dec 2019
Firedrake is an automated system for the portable solution of partial differential equations using the finite element method (FEM)
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:9 commits, 2 pushes, 2 comments in 6 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Simon contributed significantly to the testing infrastructure of the Firedrake project. They added tests to verify the behavior of the `Function` class, specifically focusing on its interaction with other functions and its ability to copy values. They also implemented tests for the newly added logging and parameter features, ensuring their correct functionality and integration within the system. This work aimed at improving the reliability and robustness of the Firedrake library.
equationspartialfemmethodsimulation
UiO-INF3331/UiO-INF3331.github.io
Jan 2017 - Nov 2020
Contributions:297 commits, 146 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 10 months
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