Greg Lindahl
Research Scientist at Common Crawl Foundation
Palo Alto, California, United States
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RockstarGreg Lindahl is a research scientist and seasoned technology leader with 13 years of experience, currently serving as CTO at the Common Crawl Foundation and based in Palo Alto. He has founded and led engineering teams at blekko and PathScale, and worked as a scientist at SAO, blending startup grit with research-driven problem solving. Greg brings deep systems and infrastructure expertise, having shifted from founding CTO roles to stewarding large-scale open data and web-crawl initiatives. He contributes to open-source projects—improving testing, reliability, and atmospheric modeling in the poliastro astrodynamics library—showing a penchant for rigorous validation and scientific software. Known for bridging research and production, he favors pragmatic refactors that increase long-term reliability while keeping projects usable by the broader community.
12 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (14)
testing10
orbital-mechanics10
python10
scientific-computing10
astrodynamics10
numpy9
pytest9
warc6
search-engine6
algorithm6
language-agnostic6
php6
webscraping6
java6
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
poliastro/poliastro
Apr 2020 - Apr 2020
poliastro - :rocket: Astrodynamics in Python
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 7 PRs, 25 comments in 5 days
Contributions summary:Greg focused on improving the testing infrastructure and reliability of the `poliastro` project. Their work involved fixing unit tests to match documentation examples, adding new test cases for atmospheric demise, and integrating a better atmospheric model. They also refactored code, and improved the handling of events during orbital propagation.
celestial-mechanicspythonsciencescientific-computingastrodynamics
wumpus/visigoth-data
Oct 2015 - Sep 2021
Contributions:19 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 11 months
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