Andrew Player
Research Software Engineer at Alaska Satellite Facility
Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Player is a Research Software Engineer with eight years of experience building and optimizing scientific software for satellite remote sensing, currently supporting Sentinel-1 SAR research and on-demand processing at the Alaska Satellite Facility. He blends practical full-stack backend work on AWS and CI/CD with low-level performance engineering across Python, C/C++, Fortran, CUDA, and Julia, having cut runtime and cost by over 75% on a project to enable operational use. Comfortable moving between rapid literature-driven R&D and production services, he also develops deep learning replacements for traditional image-processing algorithms and has presented at IGARSS. Based in Chattanooga, he pairs a BS in Mathematics and Computer Science with hands-on collaboration with NASA JPL and an active GitHub presence, bringing a rare mix of scientific curiosity and production-grade engineering discipline.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Mathematics and Computer Science at University of Alaska Fairbanks
Github Skills (29)
sar10
wrapper10
cobol9
gamma9
aws9
sdk9
common-library9
resharper9
memgraph8
api8
licensing8
smithy7
gis7
python7
cookiecutter6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ASFHyP3/hyp3-srg
Apr 2021 - Jan 2025
HyP3 plugin for generating SAR products using a back-projection algorithm
Contributions:15 reviews, 41 PRs, 111 pushes in 3 years 9 months
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AndrewPlayer3/sentinel1_decode
Aug 2024 - Feb 2025
Decode Level-0 RAW Sentinel-1 Data
Contributions:26 PRs, 100 pushes, 8 branches in 5 months
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