I am a software engineer turned weather geek. I am extremely fortunate to have been able to make a career out of learning. The people I get to work with are scary smart, and the problems we solve are hard to quantify, let alone solve. Lately, I've been focused on applying AI to weather and climate problems - in particular the engineering challenges of training large models from scratch. After cutting my teeth as a mobile developer in the San Francisco startup scene, where I learned the job and all the things they don’t teach in a CS degree, I moved to backend development for a security company. This was where I learned full stack web development, as well as all the common security vulnerabilities in web and mobile apps. I also grew my infrastructure skills there. My last role outside of weather and climate was as a Developer Programs Engineer at Google, in the mobile ads group. While at Google, I designed new ad formats, gave presentations to external developers, worked at Google IO, helped the biggest app companies in the world with GDPR and iOS IDFA changes, and managed multiple contractor teams that built custom support software integrated with internal Google infrastructure. It was at this time I developed a passion for offshore sailing and the meteorology and GIS skills necessary to win aces. Working with grib data flipped a switch in my brain, and I dove head first into a new career with the goal of making weather and climate software accessible for everyone. I joined a small research non profit, where I led an international team that built weather pipelines, and tracking and routing systems for sailboats. This ultimately took me to The Weather Company, where I worked on the system that ingested NWP data and created a consensus forecast as well as on their verification platform.With the rumors of TWC sale, I joined Weather Source, now owned by Pelmorex. At Pelmorex, I lead all of our forecast tech, and I get to learn every day from my amazingly talented colleagues.
Listed skills include W3C Accessibility, Objective C, Scikit Learn, Vuforia, and 44 others.