Ben Leighton
Senior Experimental Scientist at CSIRO
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Leighton is a delivery-focused technologist and Senior Experimental Scientist at CSIRO with 12 years of professional experience applying software engineering to geospatial and environmental science. He combines hands-on implementation, innovation, and leadership to deliver generative AI, modelling and simulation, and machine learning solutions that drive real-world impact. With roots in biology (ANU BSc) and formal ML training via Stanford’s Coursera course, he bridges domain science and advanced analytics to translate complex research needs into production-ready systems. His long tenure at CSIRO and prior engineering roles reflect a pragmatic builder mentality, comfortable moving between research prototypes and operational software. Based in Melbourne, he’s known for turning environmental data and models into actionable insights rather than purely theoretical outputs.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Australian National UniversityStandford University Online Course through Coursera, Machine Learning, 100%, Standford University Online Course through Coursera, Machine Learning, 100% at CourseraCanberra High School
Github Skills (72)
rasterio8
altium-designer8
flask8
satellite8
mercator8
fractal8
gis8
jupyter-notebook8
mandelbrot8
datacube8
gdal7
ocean-modelling7
rest-api7
sanic7
water7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
CSIRO-enviro-informatics/loci-cache-scripts
Aug 2019 - May 2020
A collection of tool to assist in the building of the loci-cache
Contributions:25 PRs, 60 pushes, 12 branches in 9 months
locirediscacheassist
benjaminleighton/xarrayfrac
Jan 2022 - Feb 2022
example custom xarray backend that dynamically generates mandelbrot fractals
Contributions:34 commits, 1 PR, 28 pushes in 1 month
backendcustom-backenddaskfractalmandelbrot
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