Joe Roberts
Technical Group Supervisor - Science And Geospatial Visualization
Pasadena, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoe Roberts is a seasoned software engineering leader with 12 years of experience specializing in GIS, geospatial visualization, and data systems for NASA Earth and planetary science missions. Based in Pasadena, he has led strategy and cloud migrations for mission-critical services like NASA GIBS/Worldview—supporting millions of daily API requests—and overseen R&D in GeoAI, digital twins, and XR/AR/VR applications for ocean, methane, and forest-health science. He combines full‑stack development, backend GIS architecture, and program leadership to deliver high‑availability, secure cloud systems and operational analytics pipelines. A recurring technical lead and co‑investigator on multiple NASA advanced projects, he translates cutting‑edge research into production tools used by the science community and space missions. An early mobile-app and open‑source contributor, Joe pairs practical engineering depth with a proven record of scaling complex geospatial platforms.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS) Information Systems and Technology, Master of Science (MS) Information Systems and Technology at Claremont Graduate UniversityBachelor of Business Administration (BBA) Management Information Systems, Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) Management Information Systems at University of Iowa
English, Thai
Github Skills (53)
threejs10
web-application10
leaflet10
raster10
geographical-information-system10
vector-tiles10
gdal10
geospatial10
webservice10
spatial-data10
geographic10
jpl10
earth10
gis10
driver10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ceos-coverage/in-situ-subsetting-service
Apr 2021 - May 2024
In-situ Subsetting Service (ISS)
Contributions:5 PRs, 12 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 1 month
deep-learningsubsettingissin-situ
nasa-gibs/mod_twms
Aug 2017 - Feb 2022
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 7 months
xmlapacheencodingconvertingapache-httpd
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