Sol Simpson
Company Owner at iSolver Software Solutions
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolSol Simpson is a software engineer and founder with 13 years of experience building research-focused tools and hardware for cognitive psychology and neuroscience. As owner of LabHackers and co-founder of iSolver, he designs and ships both hardware (MilliKey response boxes) and software while prioritizing open-source and not-for-profit projects. Previously he scaled SR Research’s Ottawa operations and led product development for the EyeLink eye-tracking line, contributing core architecture and commercializing flagship systems. He brings a rare blend of experimental-psychology discipline and hands-on engineering across Python, C, Java, and web stacks, and has contributed backend fixes and multi-window support to the widely used PsychoPy project. Based in Ottawa, he pairs product leadership and team management with continued coding at the implementation level, often tackling low-level IO and cross-platform input issues that many product leads don’t touch.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc with First Class Combined Honours, Psychology and Computer Science, close to 4.0, but I can't find the exact # right now. ;), B.Sc with First Class Combined Honours, Psychology and Computer Science, close to 4.0, but I can't find the exact # right now. ;) at Dalhousie University
Github Skills (7)
keyboard-input10
python10
keyboard10
ws-api9
winapi9
wp-api9
macos9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
psychopy/psychopy
Jul 2012 - Oct 2022
For running psychology and neuroscience experiments
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:17 reviews, 1223 commits, 138 PRs in 10 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Sol focused on fixing and improving the functionality of the keyboard handling backend, specifically addressing a bug in the iohub and PTB based keyboard event processing on Windows and macOS, as well as addressing potential issues. The user also contributed to the project by working on multi-window support and made updates to the iohub interface for a psychopy project. In addition the user worked on adding the ability to make the keyboard.Keyboard use the iohub backend.
neurosciencepythonexperiment-controlcognitive-scienceopenscience
isolver/psychopy
Sep 2015 - Oct 2022
Main repository of PsychoPy
Contributions:296 commits, 4 PRs, 911 pushes in 7 years 2 months
numpypythonpsychopymachine-learning
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