Danny Price
SKA-low Operations Scientist
Berkeley, California, United States
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Top SchoolDanny Price is an operations scientist and RF-focused instrumentation engineer with 15 years of experience designing and operating radio-astronomy phased arrays and signal-processing systems. Currently supporting SKA‑low operations from Berkeley, he combines FPGA/DSP design, RF engineering and Python-based tooling to move experiments from prototype to observatory scale. His career blends deep academic research—from a DPhil in Astrophysics at Oxford and postdoctoral roles at Harvard, UC Berkeley and Swinburne—with hands-on engineering at Curtin and the SKA Observatory, giving him rare end-to-end expertise in both science and systems. Known for translating complex calibration and beamforming challenges into operational procedures and production firmware, he brings practical solutions that keep cutting-edge telescopes running.
15 years of coding experience
B.Sc. / B.A. Physics (Hons) Pure Mathematics Japanese Linguistics, B.Sc. / B.A. Physics (Hons) Pure Mathematics Japanese Linguistics at The University of Western AustraliaDPhil Astrophysics, DPhil Astrophysics at University of Oxford
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Github Skills (81)
python10
astronomy10
fits10
gpu10
cpp10
gsm10
pythonic10
edifact10
pipeline10
conda10
cuda10
hdf10
adobe-experience-manager10
filterbank10
python-bindings10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
telegraphic/hickle
May 2012 - Aug 2022
a HDF5-based python pickle replacement
Contributions:4 releases, 7 reviews, 303 commits in 10 years 4 months
hdfpython
telegraphic/ttool
Aug 2017 - May 2019
Contributions:9 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
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