Jackson Sheppard
Doctoral Student at UC Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, California, United States
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Top SchoolJackson Sheppard is a doctoral student in chemistry with a physics background and eight years of hands-on experience building controls and data-driven systems, most recently integrating motion hardware and device support for experiments at SLAC’s LCLS where he earned a Spot Award for dependability. He combines applied control engineering (EPICS, PLCs, Beckhoff) with data analytics and machine learning skills—Python, SQL, TensorFlow/Keras, PySpark—and a certificate in data analytics to bridge experimental apparatus and analysis pipelines. At UCSB he balances graduate research, teaching, and tutoring while contributing to computational studies of molecular dynamics and FEL beam simulations published with SLAC collaborators. Known for clear technical communication and dependable execution, he excels at integrating heterogeneous devices and producing reproducible data workflows on Linux and cloud-backed systems. An avid learner and problem solver, he brings both lab-scale instrumentation experience and production-oriented software practices to multidisciplinary teams.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Physics, Bachelor of Science - BS Physics at UC Santa BarbaraCertificate Data Analytics, Certificate Data Analytics at UC Berkeley Extension
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Github Skills (48)
cdr10
twincat10
offset10
abaqus10
altium-designer9
siemens9
photon9
dmx5129
pong9
plc9
ethernet8
cnc-controller8
electrical-engineering8
opc8
vlsi8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
jsheppard95/MAPT_Phylogeny
Aug 2021 - Dec 2021
Contributions:49 commits, 57 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
jsheppard95/lcls-plc-lfe-optics
Nov 2019 - Feb 2021
TwinCAT 3 PLC Project for LCLS optics MR1L0 and MR2L0
Contributions:135 pushes, 19 branches, 1 tag in 1 year 3 months
siemensopticstwincatopcuaindustrial-automation
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