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• Staff Scientific Software Engineer, Zipline

  May, 2022 - Dec, 20253 years 7 months

  • Conceptualized, architected, built, deployed, and maintained an operational weather nowcast system automating go/no-go decisions for thousands of daily commercial autonomous drone flights around the globe

  • Weather safety targets exceeded in commercial operations

  • Engineered Cloud-native services to generate and communicate nowcast and observational data

  • Joined Data Platform team to design and implement the company's log data lake and telemetry ETL+API services, unlocking fleet wide log analysis

  • Procured off the shelf ground weather stations, built ETL and API services, and integrated into the infrastructure

  • Installed and integrated end-to-end a remote weather satellite downlink station

  • Mentored engineers and drove projects end-to-end from concept through long-term maintenance

• Senior Weather Forecast Engineer & Platform Engineer, Saildrone

  Jan, 2019 - Apr, 20223 years 3 months

  • Led Weather and Data Pipeline teams

  • Architected and developed first company data lake, unlocking fleet wide analytics

  • Built one-click end-to-end solution for offloading payload and telemetry data from drones over wired network or hand carried intelligent portable storage devices

  • Re-engineered global weather forecast system from first principles resulting in higher quality forecasts for fleet operations and commercial applications teams while achieving orders-of-magnitude efficiency and cost improvements

  • Designed and deployed cloud-native Python services using chunked gridded storage (Zarr, NetCDF) processing >100 GB of forecast data daily with low latency

  • Owned Kubernetes deployments and observability infrastructure for production forecast platform, enabling path planning of a global autonomous fleet

  • Mentored engineers and drove projects end-to-end from concept through long-term maintenance

• Senior Software Developer, Rooster Park

  May, 2018 - Dec, 20187 months

  • Founding full stack engineer for a political domain analytics engine and CMS

  • Stood up React frontend, Python backend, AWS infrastructure, and CI/CD for hyper-growth phase

• Senior Software Developer, Rooster Park / Vulcan Inc.

  Dec, 2014 - Aug, 20172 years 8 months

  • Converted from Rooster Park contract to FTE after successful full rewrite of the Sea Around Us fisheries model and analysis tools

  • Led migration of legacy Visual Basic / ASP.NET ecological modeling suite to high-performance Postgres/Python/Angular resulting in large usability and performance gains

  • Open-sourced core components including D3-based mapping framework to meet geographic projection requirements

  • Designed and shipped real-time RabbitMQ event system for radio-collar wildlife tracking

  • Developed high-precision AR prototypes in Unity3D + Python/OpenCV/numpy for beacon-based localization

  • Developed AR vision system for sporting events (US Patent 10,325,410: Augmented Reality For Enhancing Sporting Events)

• Part-time Instructor – Python 300, University of Washington Professional & Continuing Education

  Apr, 2013 - Jun, 20152 years 2 months

  • Created curriculum and taught the Python professional certificate program

  • Delivered classes on-site at UW and off-site for corporate clients

• Owner & Lead Developer, Velotron Heavy Industries

  Aug, 2007 - Dec, 20147 years 4 months

  • Delivered dozens of commercial and research projects across weather, fisheries, energy, and interactive art

  • Built and commercially successful educational platform for poker with integrated e-commerce, video streaming, and social components

  • Created a gesture and voice controlled Windows application as prototype for smart appliances (Ember.js + C# .NET)

  • Designed weather model management systems and wind power forecast delivery portals

• Senior Developer, ClipCard (formerly OneOcean)

  Jun, 2012 - Mar, 20141 year 9 months

  • Core engineer on distributed Django metadata extraction platform for oceanographic datasets

  • Integrated proprietary formats, cloud storage, and multiple distributed task queues

• Developer & Systems Administrator, 3TIER (now Vaisala)

  May, 2003 - Aug, 20074 years 3 months

  • Built end-to-end meteorological data collection, modeling, and web delivery systems

  • Managed large Linux clusters running numerical weather models

  • Introduced modern software development practices

• Java Developer, Chronotechnic

  Aug, 2002 - May, 20039 months

• IT Manager & Developer, OEOne

  Feb, 2001 - Jul, 20021 year 5 months

• President & Technical Consultant, Arctic Fox Technology Incorporated

  Apr, 2000 - Feb, 200110 months

• Scientific Programmer & Web Developer, University of Washington

  Jan, 1996 - Jun, 19982 years 5 months

• Field Tech & Software Developer, New Mexico Tech at Langmuir Laboratory

  Jun, 1997 - Sep, 19981 year 3 months

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