Adam Vaccaro
Flight Software Team Lead at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolAdam Vaccaro is a Flight Software Team Lead and seasoned scientific applications engineer at NASA JPL with nine years of experience applying spatial analytics, SAR, and data science to Earth and environmental problems. He has progressed from research and software roles to leading flight software for airborne and suborbital radar projects (UAVSAR, NISAR, AIRSAR-NG), blending hands-on Python/GDAL tool development with operational radar expertise. Adam’s background includes automating large-scale geospatial pipelines (hybrid HyP3 integration), high-performance computing for climate datasets, and serving high-resolution spatio-temporal data for real-time analysis. Based in Los Angeles, he pairs academic training in spatial data science and geosciences with practical experience operating airborne radar systems—a rare mix that helps turn complex remote-sensing research into production-capable software.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Spatial Data Science, Master of Science - MS Spatial Data Science at University of Southern CaliforniaBA (transferred) Mathematics, BA (transferred) Mathematics at Occidental College
Github Skills (1)
temperature4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
advaccaro/hadcrut4.6-graphem
Jul 2018 - Jan 2021
All code used in the GraphEM infilling of the HadCRUT4.6 ensemble temperature dataset.
Contributions:1 PR, 282 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years 6 months
datasetensembleinfillingtemperature
advaccaro/oahu-ssci581-final
Mar 2019 - Mar 2019
Contributions:13 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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