Joe Boomgard-zagrodnik
Sr. Technical Scientist at Verisk
San Diego, California, United States
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Top SchoolJoe Boomgard-zagrodnik is a PhD-trained atmospheric scientist with 10 years of experience turning meteorological research into operational products and machine-learning solutions for industry. As a senior technical scientist at Verisk he leads hail algorithm development—creating the insurance industry’s first Hail Impact Energy metric—and contributes to tornado, wind, and broader data-science efforts. His postdoctoral work at WSU combined mesonet instrumentation, big-data imputation, and site-specific ML postprocessing to improve orchard-level frost forecasting and real-time sensor health monitoring. Comfortable bridging field campaigns, numerical modeling (WRF), and production analytics, he has a track record of translating observational insights into better forecasts and commercial algorithms. Based in Seattle, he blends academic rigor from UW and FIU with practical product delivery for stakeholders in agriculture and insurance.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Atmospheric Sciences, PhD, Atmospheric Sciences at University of WashingtonBS, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences; History, BS, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences; History at University of Wisconsin-MadisonMS, Geosciences (Meteorology concentration), MS, Geosciences (Meteorology concentration) at Florida International University
Github Skills (10)
data-api7
weather-data7
meteorology6
weather6
python4
machine-learning3
hydrology3
forecasts2
tracking-algorithm2
image-analysis1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
joejoezz/AWNPy
May 2020 - Nov 2021
A Python wrapper for the MesoWest environmental data API
Contributions:25 commits, 18 pushes in 1 year 5 months
data-apipython
joejoezz/PyOLYMPEX
Jan 2016 - Jan 2018
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
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