Adam Paquette
Software Developer at U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)
Flagstaff, Arizona, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAdam Paquette is a software developer with a decade of experience building applications, APIs, and data pipelines for planetary science at the U.S. Geological Survey while completing a Computer Science degree at Northern Arizona University. He contributes to high-profile open-source work such as ISIS3, improving image-processing tools used by NASA and international missions by debugging cube file handling, fixing calculation errors, and enhancing GUI components. Passionate about game design, he brings a player-focused problem-solving mindset to scientific software, balancing rigorous data integrity with usability for researchers. Based in Flagstaff, AZ, Adam combines hands-on backend engineering with a practical curiosity about getting complex projects from prototype to public release.
10 years of coding experience
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at Northern Arizona University
Github Skills (6)
debugging10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
image-processing9
error-handling9
front-end-development8
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
DOI-USGS/ISIS3
Jul 2016 - Dec 2022
Integrated Software for Imagers and Spectrometers v3. ISIS3 is a digital image processing software package to manipulate imagery collected by current and past NASA and International planetary missions.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:41 releases, 487 reviews, 157 commits in 6 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Adam primarily focused on debugging and fixing bugs within the ISIS3 software. Their work included addressing issues in the cube file handling, specifically related to ISIS2 cube compatibility and error messages. They also updated and improved various tools, such as the HistogramTool and cnetref, by fixing calculation errors and enhancing functionality. Furthermore, the user implemented improvements and made updates to the GUI components by correctly returning the parameter history.
image-processing
acpaquette/PyHAT
Oct 2018 - Jun 2021
Contributions:29 pushes, 9 branches in 2 years 8 months
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