Craig Hoover
Principal Software Development Engineer at Vaisala
Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolCraig Hoover is a Principal Software Development Engineer with nearly three decades of professional experience and a 15-year track record delivering cloud-native, geospatial, and weather-focused web applications. He architects and leads teams to build scalable front- and back-end systems using AWS and Google Cloud, combining Node.js, Python, modern JS frameworks, and DevOps pipelines to drive cost-efficient production deployments. At Maxar/Radiant and now Vaisala he has been a key contributor to WeatherDesk and XWeather initiatives, including a documented project that cut cloud compute costs by 90%. Known for adapting across Agile, Waterfall, and iterative lifecycles, he blends hands-on coding with strategic architecture and team leadership. He also has a long history of mentoring, teaching, and building production-ready mapping and geospatial integrations (GDAL, GeoServer) that power high-volume, mission-critical services. Based in Gaithersburg, MD, Craig brings practical military-trained engineering discipline to commercial weather and geospatial software innovation.
15 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Electrical Engineering, Electrical Engineering at USMC Occupational Training55 Credits earned before joining Marine Corps Computer Science Cartographic Design Art Music, 55 Credits earned before joining Marine Corps Computer Science Cartographic Design Art Music at Montgomery College
Github Skills (166)
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javascript10
linux10
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dynamodb10
firefox10
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
crh3675/nodeii
Sep 2014 - Jul 2019
Sensible NodeJS Web Application Building (ExpressJS, SailsJS, Mongo, Waterline, Redis)
Contributions:11 releases, 217 commits, 4 PRs in 4 years 10 months
redissensibleexpressjsmongojavascript
crh3675/core-ui
Oct 2019 - Jul 2023
NodeJS Non-MVC UI Architecture
Contributions:28 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 9 months
javascriptframeworknodejsmvcframeworks
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