David Imel
Manager at California Institute of Technology
South Pasadena, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Imel is a seasoned manager and systems engineer with a PhD in Physics and over 27 years of experience designing and executing NASA space and airborne missions, as well as ground-based astronomy projects at Caltech and JPL. He brings deep, cross-disciplinary expertise spanning nuclear and particle physics, radar science and engineering, astronomy, and project and organizational leadership. As AIRSAR Manager and long-time Caltech manager, he has a track record of translating complex scientific requirements into operational systems and guiding multidisciplinary teams through high-stakes missions. David’s leadership is informed by technical rigor and practical program management, honed further by service as a Captain in the US Army National Guard and Army Reserve. Based in South Pasadena, he combines academic depth with hands-on mission delivery and an uncommon blend of defense and civilian space systems experience.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Physics, BS, Physics at University of WashingtonCalifornia Institute of Technology
Github Skills (7)
astronomy3
react2
typescript2
image-reconstruction1
parser1
adql1
python-modules1
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
donalgrant/spiro
Aug 2023 - Sep 2024
Code and notebooks related to spirograph and harmonographs
Contributions:4 PRs, 158 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 1 month
donalgrant/p6-equations
Dec 2018 - Jan 2023
Contributions:72 pushes, 7 branches, 38 comments in 4 years 1 month
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