Joachim Moeyens
Research Software Engineer at University of Washington DiRAC Institute
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolJoachim Moeyens is a research software engineer and asteroid discovery specialist with 11 years of experience, splitting his time between the University of Washington DiRAC Institute and the Asteroid Institute at B612. He leads development of the Tracklet-less Heliocentric Orbit Recovery (THOR) algorithm and is integrating it into the ADAM platform to enable production-grade asteroid discovery from datasets not originally designed for searches. Joachim combines a PhD-backed research mindset with hands-on software engineering to commission Rubin Observatory Solar System pipelines and simulate discovery performance for small bodies. Driven by data-driven solutions, he focuses on scalable, real-world impact—extending THOR to hunt potentially hazardous asteroids while making observatory workflows more efficient. An international student-turned-researcher based in Seattle, he brings both long-term collaboration with B612 and practical pipeline engineering to bridge research and operational discovery services.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) at University of WashingtonHigh School, High School at Shanghai American School - PudongACS International School - Cobham
English, Dutch
Github Skills (68)
python10
astronomy10
recovery10
orbital-mechanics10
planet10
orbit10
hough-transform10
stellar10
solar-system10
astrodynamics10
asteroids10
adam9
python-client9
thor9
planets9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
moeyensj/atm
Jul 2019 - Apr 2021
Asteroid Thermal Modeling
Contributions:16 PRs, 36 pushes, 17 branches in 1 year 9 months
modelingpythonasteroidthermalasteroids
moeyensj/moeyensj.github.io
Sep 2016 - Aug 2021
Contributions:8 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 11 months
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