Jason Levit
Unit Chief at National Weather Service/Office of Modeling and Development
Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolJason Levit is a science and technology executive with 20+ years of experience leading multidisciplinary teams to deliver operationally critical earth systems forecasting, verification, and post-processing systems. As Branch Chief at the National Weather Service’s Environmental Modeling Center he blends hands-on technical leadership with program management—standing up a 24/7 model quality-control platform, overseeing $30M in center contributions, and managing a 30-person, mixed federal/contract workforce. He has modernized legacy national systems with Python-based statistical frameworks, driven AI/ML integration into post-processing workflows, and strengthened international forecasting partnerships. Comfortable in both structured federal environments and startup settings, he combines deep meteorological expertise (MS, University of Oklahoma) with practical cloud and data engineering experience to translate science into reliable, mission-critical products.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Masters of Science Meteorology, Masters of Science Meteorology at University of Oklahoma
Github Skills (17)
post-processing9
weather-data9
weather8
meteorology8
carbon-emissions7
statistics7
jedi6
python6
climate-model5
hdf5
gfs4
ufs4
linked-data3
netcdf3
validating2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (4)
jjlevit/bald
Nov 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:10 pushes in 14 days
python-libraryarraypythonhdfvalidation
NOAA-MDL/CAMPS
Jun 2016 - Aug 2017
Community Atmospheric Model Post-Processing System
Contributions:10 commits in 1 year 2 months
atmosphericpost-processingclimate-modelcarbon-emissionspython
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