David Rodriguez
Astronomical Data Scientist
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Rodriguez is an Astronomical Data Scientist with 11 years of experience translating astrophysics research into reproducible data products and web-accessible archives at the Space Telescope Science Institute. He combines a Ph.D. in Astronomy with hands-on skills in Python, SQL, and web application development, honed through postdoctoral research on protoplanetary and debris disks and leadership of the BDNYC project at the American Museum of Natural History. David mentors students, manages research databases, and builds tools that enable discovery from large catalogs and ALMA datasets. Based in Baltimore, he bridges academic research and operational archive science, often focusing on nearby young low-mass stars and brown dwarfs while turning complex observational workflows into usable community resources.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Astronomy and Astrophysics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Astronomy and Astrophysics at Florida Institute of TechnologyUniversity of California, Los Angeles
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (77)
python10
astronomy10
core-library10
orbital-mechanics10
astrology10
science10
astrophysics10
astropy10
astrodynamics10
galaxy9
searching9
sqlalchemy9
spectral9
energy8
image-processing8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
dr-rodriguez/SEDkitSIMPLE
Aug 2022 - Dec 2024
Utilities and examples for using SEDkit with SIMPLE
Contributions:1 PR, 12 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 4 months
dr-rodriguez/MovingMast
Sep 2020 - Sep 2021
Searching Moving Targets at MAST
Contributions:2 releases, 84 commits, 8 PRs in 1 year
targetsmastpythonsearching
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