Speaker - Andrew Bolin

Andrew is a software engineer at Australia's national science agency, CSIRO. He mostly works on the Square Kilometre Array project, a scientific megaproject currently under construction in both Western Australia and South Africa. Specifically, Andrew writes (open source!) Python software to control, monitor, and test the Correlator and Beamformer for the Low frequency telescope being built in WA. This is an FPGA-based real-time digital signal processing system operating at terabit speeds to process antenna signals for astronomers to use.

Before CSIRO, Andrew worked as an automation/controls engineer in heavy industry. He still automates complex real-time processes, only now they involve digital signal processing instead of steam and turbines.