Joseph Sheedy is a Head of Software Engineering and seasoned scientific programmer who blends 20+ years of hands-on engineering with an M.S. in Atmospheric Science to build mission-critical weather and robotics systems. He designs and operates large-scale, high-performance data pipelines and nowcasting platforms that power autonomous drone operations, remote field instrumentation, and geospatial analytics. Comfortable from microcontrollers to GPU programming, he is a Python specialist who has also shipped full stacks in Ruby, C#, and JavaScript and led migrations to serverless and cloud-native architectures. His work includes deploying data systems in extreme environments—from Antarctica to mid‑Pacific—and installing satellite downlinks for real-time integration. A pragmatic engineering leader, he pairs deep domain expertise in meteorology with product-focused delivery, mentoring teams while driving transformational data engineering programs.
12 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Physics & Atmospheric Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Physics & Atmospheric Science at University of Washington
M.S. Atmospheric Science, M.S. Atmospheric Science at University of Alaska Fairbanks
Contributions:4 PRs, 6 pushes, 3 branches in 6 years 5 months
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Joseph Sheedy - Head Of Software Engineering at Aeolus