Josh Cardenzana
Data Management Specialist
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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Top SchoolJosh Cardenzana is a Data Management Specialist with 10 years of experience translating complex scientific pipelines into production-ready data systems, currently supporting the FCC Office of Inspector General. Trained as an astrophysicist (PhD) and fluent in Python and C++, he has built ETL pipelines, public APIs on AWS, and holds an AWS Database Specialty certification. His background includes developing source-catalog and likelihood-analysis software for Cherenkov Telescope Array and VERITAS surveys, bridging research-grade analytics with engineering best practices. As a data engineer at Peregrine Advisors he operationalized models and datasets for clients, and he contributes to widely used open-source astronomy tooling such as astroquery (enhancing HEASARC query capabilities). Based in Washington, DC, he combines rigorous statistical and numerical methods with pragmatic software delivery. Outside work he keeps curiosity sharp with side projects and even knitting—an unexpected outlet for methodical problem solving.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Astronomy and Astrophysics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Astronomy and Astrophysics at Iowa State UniversityThe Data IncubatorBachelor of Science (B.S.) Physics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Physics at Missouri University of Science and Technology
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (13)
astroquery10
astropy10
python10
data-retrieval10
api-design9
xcode6
pandas6
fits6
parquet6
automake6
libtool6
autotools6
astronomy6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
astropy/astroquery
Feb 2018 - Feb 2018
Functions and classes to access online data resources. Maintainers: @keflavich and @bsipocz and @ceb8
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:23 commits, 1 PR, 2 comments in 5 days
Contributions summary:Josh primarily contributed to the `astroquery/heasarc` module, focusing on enhancing its functionality. They implemented features such as querying by sky position, sorting results, and retrieving all available column names. Additionally, the user added the capability to set a maximum result limit and added support for querying a list of available mission tables. These changes significantly expanded the module's capabilities and user experience.
pythondataastropy-affiliatedastropyastronomy
Jvinniec/aoe2-aiscript
Jan 2019 - Sep 2020
Command tooltips and syntax highlighting for Age of Empires 2 AI scripts
Contributions:5 releases, 209 commits, 16 PRs in 1 year 8 months
ageage-of-empiresvscode-extensiontooltipsai-scripts
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