David Modro
Software Engineer
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Modro is a software engineer and senior technical program manager with eight years of experience marrying optics and physics expertise to complex hardware-software product delivery. He currently focuses on head-up and head-mounted augmented reality displays for commercial and military aircraft, ensuring designs are manufacturable and transitions to full-rate production run smoothly. Skilled at cross-functional communication, root cause analysis, and engineering process improvement, he brings clarity to project deliverables across engineering, testing, and production teams. His academic background in lasers, optics, and applied physics enables him to operate comfortably between high-level program coordination and low-level technical detail. An active open-source contributor, he maintains back-end fixes for NASA’s Land Information System framework, applying rigorous debugging and verification skills honed on scientific software. Based in Portland, he also pursues iOS and Python development as practical outlets for continuous hands-on engineering.
8 years of coding experience
San José State UniversityMS, Applied Physics, MS, Applied Physics at Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology
Github Skills (8)
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fileio9
file-access9
develop9
file-handling9
file-processing9
netcdf9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
NASA-LIS/LISF
Feb 2019 - Jul 2022
Land Information System Framework
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 reviews, 104 commits, 92 PRs in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:David primarily contributes to fixing bugs and improving the functionality of the Land Information System Framework. Their work involves addressing issues related to incorrect binary output of undefined tiles, uninitialized variables within the Noah-3.9 LSM, and other issues related to documentation updates. The user's work extends to the development of the LVT (Land Verification Toolkit), including fixing issues for the UA SNOW reader and addressing LDT little-endian problems. They also made minor code adjustments to address LIS crashes.
landsystem-informationland-information-system
dmocko/LISF
Jan 2019 - Feb 2025
Land Information System Framework
Contributions:313 pushes, 107 branches in 6 years 2 months
wpsland-information-systemradansible-collectionssystem-information
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