Will Gauvin
Senior Software Engineer at Swinburne University of Technology
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolWill Gauvin is a senior software engineer and architect with over two decades in the industry who now applies his Java and cloud architecture expertise to astrophysics and observatory software at Swinburne’s Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing. He has led technical teams and designed SaaS solutions on AWS for enterprise products, and today writes production pipelines for pulsar timing at SKAO and adaptive optics software for the W. M. Keck Observatory. Comfortable moving between hands-on development and high-level architecture, he combines a strong Java background with academic training in theoretical physics and a Master’s in Astronomy and Astrophysics. Based in Melbourne, he brings a rare mix of large-scale systems experience and domain knowledge in astronomy, positioning him to bridge scientific research needs with robust, scalable engineering.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Master of Science - MS, Astronomy and Astrophysics at Swinburne University of TechnologyBachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Theoretical and Mathematical Physics, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Theoretical and Mathematical Physics at James Cook University
English
Github Skills (18)
dslr8
driver8
camera8
ccd8
core-library8
data-science7
pytorch7
machine-learning7
python7
radio-astronomy7
git-mirror7
deep-learning6
tensorflow6
jax5
astrophotography5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
wgauvin/indi
May 2022 - Jul 2025
INDI Core Library Repository
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
indicore-library
wgauvin/astrogruff-setup
Feb 2021 - May 2022
Contributions:13 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 3 months
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