Don Setiawan
Principal Lead Software Engineer at University of Washington eScience Institute
Kent, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolDon Setiawan is a Principal Lead Software Engineer with a decade of experience translating scientific research needs into scalable, production-grade software, currently pioneering AI-enabled research tools at the University of Washington eScience Institute. He combines a foundation in scientific computing and cloud-native engineering—architecting data pipelines, geospatial web apps, and APIs for large oceanographic datasets—with AI engineering work such as building LLMaven and rse-plugins to make LLMs practical for researchers. Don is a hands-on open-source advocate who publishes models and libraries (including quantized OLMo-7B-Instruct and Echopype) and creates community resources like the Research Software Engineering Guidelines that are used across the field. Known for mentoring cross-disciplinary teams and formalizing reproducible workflows, he thrives at the intersection of research and software, rapidly converting messy domain problems into robust, reproducible systems.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Oceanography, Ocean Technology, Geographic Information Systems, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Oceanography, Ocean Technology, Geographic Information Systems at University of WashingtonMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science and Systems, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science and Systems at University of Washington TacomaAssociate of Arts and Sciences (A.A.S.), General Studies, Associate of Arts and Sciences (A.A.S.), General Studies at Everett Community College
English, Indonesian
Github Skills (200)
interoperability10
acoustics10
insar10
forge10
netcdf10
noise10
environmental10
conda-forge10
water10
rio10
ocean10
scalability10
llama10
conda10
zarr10
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
cormorack/yodapy
Feb 2018 - Nov 2019
Your Ocean Data Access in Python
Contributions:8 releases, 258 commits, 136 PRs in 1 year 9 months
data-accessoceanpythonocean-data
cormorack/cava-metadata
Jan 2021 - Dec 2022
Home to the Interactive Oceans Metadata API Service
Contributions:48 releases, 4 reviews, 50 PRs in 1 year 11 months
apioceansmetadata-apimetadataapi-service
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