# About me

I work as a software engineer in the [Computational & Information Systems Lab (CISL)](https://www2.cisl.ucar.edu/) at the [National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)](https://ncar.ucar.edu/).

## Software

As part of my work at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, I am a core contributor to many projects in the PyData ecosystem. A complete record of projects that I have contributed to is available on my [{fa}`github,style=fab` GitHub page](https://github.com/andersy005).

## Publications

For a list of publications in which I've been involved,
check out [my ORCID page](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6583-571X) or [my Google Scholar page](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=vrlgltgAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao).

## Academic and Work timeline

Below is a timeline of what I've been up to over the past several years.

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**Sept 2020**: Promoted to Software Engineer ||
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I continued leading the intake-ESM project. In addition, I joined the [Jupyter Meets Earth](https://pangeo-data.github.io/jupyter-earth/) project as a contributor. During this time, I helped with the development of the following projects:
- [jupyter-forward](https://jupyter-forward.readthedocs.io/), a Jupyter Lab port forwarding utility that simplifies running jupyter on remote resources.

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**Oct 2018**: Joined NCAR as Software Engineer |
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After my work at Quansight, I joined NCAR as a fulltime Software Engineer I focusing my work around developing Python tools for climate data analysis. Here are a few of the main things I did during this time:

- Lead the [intake-ESM](https://intake-esm.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) project, a Python data cataloguing package for exploring and ingesting earth system model data sets.
- Contributed to the core software stack powering the [Pangeo Project](https://pangeo.io/). Some of the projects I contributed to include:
  - [xarray](https://xarray.pydata.org/en/stable/)
  - [dask](https://docs.dask.org/en/latest/)
  - [distributed](https://distributed.dask.org/en/latest/)
  - [dask-mpi](https://mpi.dask.org/en/latest/)
  - [dask-jobqueue](https://jobqueue.dask.org/en/latest/)

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**June 2018**: Joined Quansight
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After graduating I joined [Quansight](https://www.quansight.com/) as a software developer intern. At Quansight, I developed [xndframes](https://github.com/xnd-project/xndframes), an experimental Pandas extension array backed by xnd. In addition to xndframes, I worked on [cuDF](https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf) a GPU dataframe library.

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**May 2018**: Graduated from UA-Little Rock
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Graduated from [University of Arkansas at Little Rock](http://ualr.edu/systemsengineering/) with a B.S. in Systems Engineering.
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