Joe Flasher
Environmental Equity Lead, Social Responsibility And Impact at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Washington, District of Columbia, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolJoe Flasher is an engineering leader and CEO with 14 years of experience building cloud-native geospatial and environmental data platforms that scale to planetary datasets. After a scientific start studying gamma-ray bursts and working on shuttle payload analysis, he spent nearly a decade at AWS leading open geospatial and open-data initiatives that made Earth observation and real-time environmental data broadly accessible. He co-founded OpenAQ to create the first global open air-quality platform and has guided policy-facing programs like Digital Earth Africa and environmental equity work within AWS. Technically hands-on, Joe contributed DevOps improvements to the widely used awslabs/open-data-registry, modernizing deployment and CI practices. He combines research-grade scientific rigour with product and operational experience, and is now applying that mix to lead Development Seed’s strategy and growth. Expect practical curiosity, systems thinking, and the occasional dad joke.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Astronomy and Astrophysics, BS, Astronomy and Astrophysics at Penn State UniversityMS, Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences, MS, Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences at University of Colorado Boulder
English, German
Github Skills (11)
bash10
aws10
codebuild10
cicd10
s3-bucket9
amazon-s39
amazon-cloudfront9
aws-s39
yaml8
dockers3
docker3
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
awslabs/open-data-registry
Apr 2018 - Jan 2023
A registry of publicly available datasets on AWS
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:55 reviews, 500 commits, 632 PRs in 4 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Joe primarily focused on improving the deployment and build processes of the open-data-registry. They implemented changes to the `deploy.sh` script to integrate CodeBuild for testing and deployment, updating the deployment strategy based on the branch being deployed. The user also updated scripts to ensure consistent file extensions and address validation issues. Furthermore, the user refactored the deployment script to use `main` branch instead of `master` branch.
datasetsaws
openaq/openaq-api
Jul 2015 - Dec 2019
OpenAQ Platform API - NO LONGER IN USE see https://github.com/openaq/openaq-api-v2
Contributions:370 commits, 357 PRs, 419 pushes in 4 years 6 months
apiapi-platformopenaqopenaq-api
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