Gareth Simons
Research Fellow at Benchmark Urbanism
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolGareth Simons is a research fellow and urban analytics engineer with 11+ years of experience applying geospatial software to evidence-based urbanism, city science, and national-scale building stock energy modelling. He develops automated, scalable urban modelling pipelines (creator of the cityseer toolset) that bridge Python/PostGIS backends, machine learning, and interactive visualisation frontends like Mapbox and game engines. Trained originally as an architect and now PhD-qualified in advanced spatial analysis, he blends design-led project management experience—LEED projects and firm leadership—with deep technical skills in spatial databases, QGIS/Geo workflows, and dashboards. His work spans EU-wide automated urban analytics, educational collaborations with pilot cities, and research-grade energy analysis, revealing how land-use diversity and morphology emerge at scale. Not obvious from his title: he routinely translates architectural briefs into production-ready data pipelines that power both research and practical planning tools.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Architecture, Master's degree Architecture at University of ManitobaBachelor's degree Architecture, Bachelor's degree Architecture at University of the Free StateUniversity College London
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Github Skills (200)
ui-components10
gdal10
footnotes10
3d10
gridsome10
data-files10
progress-bar10
neural-network10
jupyter-extension10
json10
docstrings10
spatial-data10
nodejs10
morphological-analysis10
visualization10
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
songololo/spokesandneedles
Nov 2020 - Feb 2021
Contributions:95 PRs, 490 pushes, 5 branches in 2 months
benchmark-urbanism/postgis
Dec 2016 - Aug 2019
Contributions:78 commits, 77 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 8 months
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