Joseph Jacob
Senior Software Generalist (AI Systems And Applications)
Los Angeles Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoseph Jacob is a senior software generalist and technical leader with nearly three decades of experience delivering cloud-native, distributed, and big-data systems for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and now building autonomous spaceborne compute platforms at Sophia Space. He blends hands-on expertise in AWS, Kubernetes, Spark, and HPC-cloud hybrid architectures with a strong record of leading interdisciplinary teams to productionize science workflows for atmospheric, oceanographic, planetary, and astronomical data. Joseph is experienced in standards-driven, open-source development and has published and presented research while shaping NASA mission-critical analytics subsystems. He also teaches applied electrical technology, reflecting a practical commitment to workforce development and technical mentorship. Known for translating complex science requirements into scalable operational systems, he uniquely combines deep scientific-domain knowledge (radiative transfer, NetCDF/HDF5, remote sensing) with pragmatic engineering across languages and deployment stacks.
10 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., M.S., Computer Engineering, Ph.D., M.S., Computer Engineering at Cornell UniversityB.S., Electrical and Computer Engineering, B.S., Electrical and Computer Engineering at University at Buffalo
Github Skills (29)
webservice9
nexus9
python8
java8
geospatial7
numpy7
databases7
scientific-computing7
database6
siggraph6
apache-spark6
cloud-computing6
project-organization6
jupyter-notebook5
search-api5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
jjacob7734/incubator-sdap-nexus
Mar 2018 - Dec 2022
Mirror of Apache sdap (Incubating)
Contributions:31 pushes, 24 branches in 4 years 9 months
sdapjavaincubatingapache
unity-sds/unity-analytics-sdap
Aug 2022 - Oct 2024
Contributions:2 releases, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
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