Simón Torres
Scientific Software Engineer at NSF's NOIRLab
La Serena, Coquimbo Region, Chile
Summary
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Top SchoolSimón Torres is a Scientific Software Engineer with nine years of experience building astronomy data pipelines and reducing instrument data, currently developing a Python-based reduction pipeline for the Goodman spectrograph at NOIRLab's SOAR Telescope. Grounded in observational work from Cerro Tololo, Gemini and Carnegie projects, he blends hands-on telescope operations and data analysis with production-quality software engineering using Astropy and open-source practices. His career spans research assistance to engineering roles across major southern observatories, giving him deep domain knowledge of instrumentation, calibration and thermal control systems. Based in La Serena, Chile, he brings practical observatory experience to software delivery—turning complex instrument behaviors into reproducible, well-documented code, exemplified by his public Goodman pipeline on GitHub.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Astrophysics, Bachelor's degree, Astrophysics at Universidad de La Serena
German, Spanish, English, Italian
Github Skills (135)
sphinx-doc10
python10
astronomy10
ubuntu10
pandas10
reduction10
infrared10
sphinx10
data-analysis10
ccd10
mercury10
visualizer10
mkdocs10
manipulation10
core-library9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
simontorres/bravo
Dec 2016 - May 2021
Project to create a tool to analyze periodic signals
Contributions:12 pushes, 4 branches, 3 comments in 4 years 4 months
signalspythonanalyzeperiodic
simontorres/specutils
May 2018 - Apr 2022
Affiliated package for 1D spectral operations. Maintainer: @wkerzendorf @nhmc
Contributions:17 pushes, 8 branches in 4 years
spectraldeltazonesmaintainer
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