Alex Gurvich
Senior Consultant at Excella
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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Top SchoolAlex Gurvich is a Senior Consultant and former academic with 10+ years building scalable data pipelines, interactive visualizations, and AI-adjacent tooling for large public-science programs. He led technical development for NASA’s Earth Information Center and high-visibility projects like the Earth.gov COP28 beta and the Eclipse Explorer (24M+ views), designing novel geospatial/temporal formats that reduced cloud transfer by 256x and sped queries 1000x. Equally comfortable in backend data engineering and browser-based visualization, he contributed Firefly integration to the widely used yt project to enable web-scale particle rendering. His work spans HPC optimization (100x speedups via CUDA and profiling), semantic search using vector embeddings and ChromaDB, and production-ready geospatial cloud tooling. Based in Washington, DC, he organizes a regional data visualization meetup and combines research-grade rigor with product-focused delivery for public-facing scientific tools.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Astronomy and Astrophysics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Astronomy and Astrophysics at Northwestern UniversityBachelor of Science - BS Physics, Bachelor of Science - BS Physics at Carnegie Mellon University
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Github Skills (14)
data-visualizations10
data-visualization10
data-visualisation10
python10
scientific-computing10
visualizations9
data-analysis9
visualization9
analyse8
astrophysics7
astronomy7
visual-studio-code6
vscode-remote6
tmux6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
yt-project/yt
Mar 2019 - Jul 2021
Main yt repository
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 25 commits, 5 PRs in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Alex contributed extensively to integrating Firefly, a browser-based particle visualization platform, within the yt project. Their work focused on enabling dataset export to Firefly, involving the creation of a `create_firefly_object` function. They moved code, updated documentation, and implemented testing to integrate this functionality, demonstrating expertise in both the backend data processing and visualization aspects of the project.
pythondatafinite-element-analysisgeophysicsnuclear-engineering
agurvich/abg_python
Jun 2018 - Nov 2022
common python utilities
Contributions:7 releases, 437 commits, 3 PRs in 4 years 5 months
python310python-utilitiespythonpython311python38
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