Jeff De La Beaujardière
Director of Engineering at NCAR
Boulder, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJeff De La Beaujardière is a seasoned engineering leader with three decades of experience at the intersection of Earth science, software, and data policy, having led NCAR’s Information Systems Division and shaped data management across NOAA and NASA. He pairs deep scientific training (PhD in Astrophysics) with practical expertise in cloud computing, data visualization, open data and interoperability standards, and has managed multi-million dollar programs and cross-agency teams. Known for translating complex observational science needs into discoverable, well-documented, and archivable data systems, he has driven policy and technical recommendations that improve environmental data accessibility. Based in Boulder, he brings a rare blend of solar physics research roots and large-scale systems leadership, and maintains an active scholarly footprint (ORCID) despite being retired on disability. An understated strength is his long history of fostering inter-agency collaboration, making him a go-to liaison between scientific, technical, and policy communities.
11 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Astrophysics, PhD, Astrophysics at University of Colorado at BoulderBA, Physics, BA, Physics at UC Berkeley
English, French
Github Skills (18)
aws10
intake9
zarr8
typed-array7
amazon-s37
dask7
data-access7
python7
n-dimensional5
portal5
singer4
storage4
data-catalog4
open-data3
parsing3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jeffdlb/cesm-lens-aws
Sep 2019 - Dec 2019
Examples of analysis of CESM LENS data publicly available on Amazon S3 (us-west-2 region) using xarray and dask
Contributions:4 PRs, 23 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
amazondaskregionamazon-s3cesm-lens
jeffdlb/open-data-registry
Feb 2021 - Feb 2021
A registry of publicly available datasets on AWS
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
datasetsdvcaws
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