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Erick Shepherd

Full-stack software engineer · Applications, data & automation

I build and improve applications, automate repetitive work, and make scientific data easier to use.

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Selected work

Tools built around real problems

An internal database tool, a service-planning map, and a published scientific-data converter.

OracleDB AI Bridge — An Internal Developer Tool

A local Python utility that colleagues used to work with Oracle databases through Claude and Cursor. It supported database and dependency analysis across more than 15 applications.

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Service Operations Map

A touchscreen map for a septic-services business that geocoded customer addresses to show pricing zones, service-due heatmaps, and upsell flags. The shop adopted it in place of its sticker wall map.

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ncarnate — Legacy Scientific Data to Modern netCDF4

A published Python converter that turns legacy HDF-EOS2 satellite granules into CF-annotated netCDF4, reconstructing coordinates for supported grids and swaths so older data opens in xarray, QGIS, and Panoply.

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Experience

From business workflows to scientific data

I've maintained enterprise applications, delivered independent contract work, and developed research tools at NASA Goddard and UMBC.

Enterprise applications. Reduced document-generation time from more than 30 seconds to under one second, and built imports for pricing tables embedded in spreadsheets and images.
Independent engineering. Delivered data-analysis and automation work, and co-built a FastAPI and PostgreSQL backend for device telemetry.
Research software. Wrote two Python tools during my NASA internship, both filed as NASA-owned New Technology Reports.

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Writing

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Oct 9, 2026

Introducing ncarnate: converting HDF4 and netCDF to netCDF4

Converting legacy scientific data into netCDF4, with an AMSR-E sea-ice example.

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I build and improve applications, connect data and systems, and automate repetitive work. I'm available for remote consulting, contract work, and engineering roles.

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