Aimee Stewart
Research Director at KU Biodiversity Institute and Natural History Museum
Lawrence, Kansas, United States
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Top SchoolAimee Stewart is a research-focused systems software leader with 11+ years of experience designing and maintaining research software for biodiversity and GIS at the KU Biodiversity Institute, now serving as Research Director. She combines a BS in Computer Science and an MA in Geography to bridge software engineering, remote sensing, and biodiversity informatics, with deep hands-on skills in Python, Java, C/C++, open-source GIS libraries, ArcGIS, PostgreSQL, and Linux. Her career at KU spans roles from Senior Systems Programmer to Research Architect, giving her rare institutional knowledge of long-term data systems and scientific workflows. Known for methodical troubleshooting and a curiosity for new technologies, she often translates complex spatial analyses into reliable, reproducible software tools that support research and collections management. Based in Lawrence, Kansas, she brings both academic rigor and practical engineering discipline to interdisciplinary teams.
11 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
University of Kansas
Github Skills (6)
randomization8
numpy-arrays8
java7
dendropy5
python1
api1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
lifemapper/bison
Jul 2018 - Dec 2024
Repository for Lifemapper / Bison connection
Contributions:13 PRs, 528 pushes, 20 branches in 6 years 6 months
lifemapper/core
Sep 2015 - Dec 2021
Core Lifemapper repository
Contributions:2 releases, 5 PRs, 1661 pushes in 6 years 3 months
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