Simon Perkins

Simon Perkins is a Senior Scientific Software Developer at the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory, where responsibilities include leading the development of a distributed computing strategy for processing Radio Astronomy data. Prior experience includes a Senior Software Developer role at Coiled and a previous tenure at the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory, focusing on scientific software development. Simon's academic background features research as a Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Cape Town, where work centered on High Performance Computing techniques for the Square Kilometre Array Telescope, alongside lecturing in C++. Simon holds a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Computer Science from the University of Cape Town.