Simon Knapp
Principal Research Consultant at CSIRO's Data61
Canberra, Australia
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Top SchoolSimon Knapp is a Principal Research Consultant and statistician with a decade of experience building analytical systems that bridge policy, environmental science and cloud engineering. He has led projects from agent-based and numerical modelling to secure cloud architectures for inter-departmental data sharing, helping government clients weigh trade-offs between federated and centralised governance. At CSIRO and Data61 he combines deep statistical methods with practical software engineering to support supply-chain resilience, epidemiology, biosecurity and program evaluation. Previously he redesigned critical national systems—such as earthquake and tsunami warning platforms—migrating them to multi-cloud production while integrating HPC and downstream processing. Trained as a PhD statistician with a background in economics and actuarial science, he is equally comfortable with probabilistic risk models and scalable ETL pipelines. Colleagues rely on him for clarity on messy administrative data and for turning rigorous quantitative analysis into actionable public policy advice.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Australian National University
Github Skills (74)
traveling-salesman10
dijkstra10
osrm10
openstreetmap10
astar10
nominatim10
map-matching10
directions10
tiled10
pandas8
refactoring8
python8
insar8
graph8
terraform7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
CVTS/cvts
Mar 2021 - Feb 2023
Description of project, docs, and other misc things.
Contributions:15 reviews, 32 PRs, 243 pushes in 1 year 11 months
misc
Sleepingwell/pandana
Nov 2023 - Mar 2025
Pandas Network Analysis by UrbanSim: fast accessibility metrics and shortest paths, using contraction hierarchies :world_map:
Contributions:83 pushes, 15 branches in 1 year 4 months
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