Skill

Data cleaning

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Experience

Systems and Embedded Software Engineer
Self-employed (part-time) · Dec 2020 – Apr 2024
Independent contract engineering spanning embedded/IoT devices, data-analysis pipelines, and web systems.
Research Intern
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center · Jun 2019 – Dec 2019
Streamlined ground-truth validation and eliminated a proprietary IDL dependency in NASA's MODIS Dark Target aerosol-retrieval pipeline; two tools filed as NASA New Technology Reports.
Research Assistant
UMBC — Department of Physics, ACROS Group · Aug 2017 – Jun 2020
Atmospheric remote-sensing research on UMBC’s Taki supercomputer. NSF CyberTraining research in fall 2019 and coursework in spring 2020 were part of this longer appointment, with stipend support.

Earth-Science Data Tooling — Packaged Scientific Python
Project
I developed scientific-data tools through NASA internships and UMBC research, including conversion to netCDF4 and parsing into pandas DataFrames. cosmic-crunch and noaa-gml-file-reader are published on PyPI; I also contributed to collaborative cloud-anomaly analysis.