Erick Shepherd
Freelance Software Developer
Westminster, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolErick Shepherd is a freelance software developer and computational physicist with nine years of practical experience turning complex scientific problems—particularly cloud and aerosol analysis—into scalable data-processing software. A physics B.S. with a 4.0 GPA from UMBC, he has applied Python and C/C++ to run analytics on supercomputing clusters for NASA CATS lidar datasets and contributed to aerosol transport research at NASA GSFC. He blends hands-on research, internship experience at Northrop Grumman, and teaching support to deliver reproducible, high-performance code for big-data science workflows. Based in Westminster, MD, Erick is a lifelong tinkerer and father who continually expands his toolset across languages and platforms to bridge research needs and production-ready software.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
General Education, General Education at HomeschoolAssociate of Science (A.S.), STEM, GPA: 3.82, Associate of Science (A.S.), STEM, GPA: 3.82 at Frederick Community CollegeUMBC
Spanish, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (31)
climate-science10
adobe-brackets10
crypto9
syntax-highlighting9
markup-language8
hpc8
big-data8
codemirror7
tkinter6
jupyter-notebook6
dictionary6
ipython6
python6
numpy6
brackets6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ErickShepherd/pydlock
May 2020 - Jul 2026
Contributions:11 pushes, 2 branches in 6 years 3 months
ErickShepherd/cosmic-crunch
Jan 2021 - Jul 2026
Contributions:26 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 6 months
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