Derek Podowitz
Meteorologist, IDEA Lab Manager at US Department of the Navy
California, United States
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Top SchoolDerek Podowitz is a meteorologist and IDEA Lab manager at the Naval Postgraduate School with 12 years of experience combining atmospheric science, space systems, and data-focused engineering. He builds and modernizes data pipelines and lab infrastructure, automating ingest and product generation with shell scripting, Python, AWS, and Jupyter Hub to support operational meteorology and climatology. His research background includes an MS in Atmospheric Sciences and published work on light-scattering simulations, and he brings hands-on numerical algorithm development experience in Fortran, MATLAB, and UNIX-era HPC. Derek has applied those skills across NOAA and NASA internships, developing statistical models and remote-sensing analyses, and he enjoys tackling simulation and data-analysis challenges for planetary atmospheres and magnetospheres. Colleagues rely on him to translate scientific needs into robust data tools and to coordinate IT, faculty, and student workflows in a multi-platform lab environment.
12 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, meteorology concentration with a research option, Bachelor of Science, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, meteorology concentration with a research option at Georgia Institute of TechnologyMaster of Science (MS), Atmospheric Sciences, Thesis option, Master of Science (MS), Atmospheric Sciences, Thesis option at Texas A&M UniversityCertificate, Space Systems, Certificate, Space Systems at Naval Postgraduate School
English
Github Skills (1)
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
nasa/cape
May 2014 - Feb 2023
Computational Aerosciences Productivity & Execution
Contributions:20 releases, 3232 commits, 2 PRs in 8 years 9 months
nasa-ddalle/pyover02-powered_nacelle
May 2022 - Feb 2025
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 9 months
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