Grant Atkins
Senior Software Engineer at MITRE
Virginia Beach, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolGrant Atkins is a Lead Software Engineer with 10 years of experience building full-stack web applications, iOS apps, and research-driven tooling, currently leading engineering at MITRE. He combines production-grade development in Python, Swift, C++, Java, and JavaScript with DevOps practices like Docker to turn research prototypes—especially in web archiving and digital libraries—into maintainable systems. His background includes graduate research at Old Dominion University and a stint at Los Alamos National Laboratory, where he focused on datasets, image classification, and reproducible evaluation. Grant’s work bridges academic rigor and practical delivery, exemplified by a Python package for news similarity and Docker-tested age-estimation services. Colleagues rely on him for thoughtful engineering trade-offs that respect both research goals and operational constraints. Based in Virginia Beach, he brings a curious, multidisciplinary approach to recommender systems, data visualization, and semantic web problems.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Old Dominion University
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Github Skills (49)
bing-api10
bing10
python7
kinvey6
swiftui6
simctl6
estimate6
simulator6
warc5
mojolicious5
memento5
digital-humanities4
webapp4
security4
swift4
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
oduwsdl/CarbonDate
Jul 2017 - Oct 2018
Estimating the age of web resources
Contributions:4 releases, 81 commits, 34 PRs in 1 year 3 months
pythonageestimatingweb-resourcesbing-api
grantat/news-similarity
Jan 2018 - Sep 2018
Contributions:2 releases, 3 commits, 2 pushes in 7 months
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