Fred Moolekamp is an experienced IAM provisioning project manager and systems analyst with over three decades of hands-on involvement across the full software development lifecycle and 11 years in focused technical roles. He has led large federal integrations for the VA—including Master Veteran’s Index and Access Services—translating complex government requirements into measurable user stories, traceable artifacts, and successful deliveries. Fred combines deep practical skills in requirements engineering, SQL-backed traceability tools, and legacy-to-modern integration with people leadership responsibilities such as budgeting, hiring, and cross-team coordination. He contributes to open-source scientific tooling as a back-end developer for the widely used astroquery project, improving SDSS query capabilities and Python 3 compatibility. Based in Belle Chasse, Louisiana, he pairs research-science experience in astrophysics with enterprise-grade project execution, making him adept at bridging technical detail and stakeholder communication. Notably, he has a track record of building pragmatic MS Access/SQL solutions that enabled 98% on-time delivery rates for complex programs.
11 years of coding experience
31 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at University of New Orleans
Functions and classes to access online data resources. Maintainers: @keflavich and @bsipocz and @ceb8
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:18 commits, 2 PRs, 6 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:Fred focused on enhancing the astroquery library's SDSS (Sloan Digital Sky Survey) query functionality. They expanded the query capabilities by adding features to retrieve specific data fields and corrected several Python 3 compatibility issues. The user also addressed error handling by displaying server error messages and updated print statements to improve the library's usability and compatibility. Furthermore, they implemented the ability to query a list of coordinates.
Contributions:9 reviews, 5 PRs, 103 pushes in 1 year 6 months
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Fred Moolekamp - Iam Provisioning Project Manager at SAIC