Ajinkya Kulkarni is a Principal Research Scientist with 12 years of experience building and leading web-based Earth Science Informatics projects in the United States, most notably technical leadership at NASA’s Global Hydrology Resource Center. He has designed and delivered cloud migrations, data publication workflows, and visualization platforms for major NASA programs—including Harmonized Landsat Sentinel-2 processing, field campaign explorers, and provenance systems—earning six NASA awards for technical impact. Based in Huntsville, he blends hands-on software engineering with academic experience as a part-time UAH faculty member who has designed and taught computer science courses. Ajinkya is skilled at turning complex scientific data needs into scalable, user-focused web systems and has a track record of integrating diverse satellite, airborne, and ground datasets. He brings deep institutional knowledge of NASA data ecosystems and pragmatic experience with cloud-native transitions that accelerate scientific access and reuse. Outside of formal roles, he consistently bridges research and operational delivery, making science data more discoverable and usable for researchers and decision makers.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Science at Sant Gadge Baba Amravati University
Master of Science, Computer Science, Master of Science, Computer Science at University of Alabama in Huntsville
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