Alejandro Soto
Lead Scientist at Southwest Research Institute
Boulder, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolAlejandro Soto is a Lead Scientist based in Boulder with 13 years advancing planetary atmospheric science and spaceflight instrument development. He blends hands-on engineering from early roles at JPL and Lockheed with deep research—holding a PhD from Caltech—and has contributed to missions including Deep Impact and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. His work couples general circulation and mesoscale models to probe climate dynamics, atmospheric collapse, and surface–atmosphere interactions on Mars, Titan and terrestrial exoplanets. At Southwest Research Institute he leads development and operation of optical instruments that translate model predictions into new observations. Colleagues value his rare combination of systems engineering experience and theoretical insight, particularly his work linking climate models to groundwater and mesoscale processes.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Planetary Science, PhD, Planetary Science at California Institute of TechnologyB.A., Physics & Astronomy, B.A., Physics & Astronomy at Dartmouth CollegeM.S., Aeronautics & Astronautics, M.S., Aeronautics & Astronautics at Stanford University
Spanish
Github Skills (41)
netlify9
jupyter9
r9
page-builder9
hugo-theme9
hugo9
prediction-model9
rstudio9
alfred-workflow9
rmarkdown9
weather-data8
tailwind8
website-template8
noaa8
cffi8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
soto97/dotfiles
Feb 2013 - Feb 2022
Contributions:209 commits, 77 pushes, 4 branches in 9 years 1 month
soto97/janus-scripts
May 2015 - Dec 2021
A collection of scripts that I leave in the /bin directory. Most of these scripts support my climate modeling work.
Contributions:2 PRs, 27 pushes, 4 branches in 6 years 7 months
pythonclimatebinsplunkdirectory
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