Simon Cox
Consultant at Timely Logic
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolSimon Cox is a consultant and environmental informatics specialist with 14 years focused on distributed architectures and information standards for geoscience and water data. A seasoned research scientist formerly with CSIRO Land and Water, he has deep domain expertise in environmental data interoperability and has led international standards work for the Open Geospatial Consortium and ISO geographic information committees. His career spans academia, government research and international agencies, including a fellowship at the OGC and a grant placement at the European Commission's Joint Research Centre. Simon combines hands-on technical design with policy and community leadership—having served on advisory groups like the Research Data Alliance and Australia’s Linked Data Working Group—to translate complex scientific data into interoperable, production-ready systems. Based in Melbourne, he brings a rare blend of geophysics training (PhD Columbia) and practical experience in building standards-driven, distributed environmental information systems.
14 years of coding experience
30 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Structural Geology and Rock Mechanics, Master of Science - MS Structural Geology and Rock Mechanics at Imperial College LondonBachelor of Arts - BA Geological Sciences, Bachelor of Arts - BA Geological Sciences at University of CambridgePhD Geophysics, PhD Geophysics at Columbia University
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Github Skills (173)
ecology10
json-schema10
ontology10
owl10
schema10
ietf10
ontologies10
csv10
environment-variables10
spatial-data10
geosparql10
rdf10
data-catalog10
w3c10
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Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
ANZSoilData/def-au-asc
May 2021 - May 2025
Machine-readable representation of the definitions in Isbell, R.F. (1996;2002;2016;2021) The Australian Soil Classification (3rd edn). CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne
Contributions:1 review, 2 PRs, 25 pushes in 4 years 1 month
classificationedn
dr-shorthair/specref
Sep 2017 - Apr 2025
An open-source, community-maintained database of Web standards & related references.
Contributions:2 PRs, 35 pushes, 18 branches in 7 years 8 months
sql-databasedatabasestandards
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