Kathleen Labrie
Observatory Scientist
Hilo, Hawaii, United States
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Top SchoolKathleen Labrie is an observatory scientist and product-minded science software developer with 17 years designing, building, and managing Gemini’s data reduction software suite. She blends hands-on coding in Python, C and legacy IRAF languages with science leadership—running teams, projects, and QA pipelines while still using the tools herself for research on supernovae, starbursts and quasars. Known for high standards, strong documentation practices, and tenacity, she optimizes for code reuse and maintainability in complex, resource-constrained projects. Based in Hilo, Hawaii, she pairs PhD-level astrophysics insight with practical UX and deployment experience, frequently surfacing subtle user-facing issues because she’s both a developer and an active end user.
17 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Astrophysics, PhD, Astrophysics at University of VictoriaBSc, Physics, BSc, Physics at Université Laval
French, English, Spanish, Japanese
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Github Skills (34)
reduction10
stable10
python10
astronomy10
core-library10
astrophysics10
orbital-mechanics10
astrology10
version-control10
gemini10
versioning10
science10
astrodynamics10
ds99
viewer9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
KathleenLabrie/SNRmodel
Mar 2011 - Sep 2014
Contributions:27 commits in 3 years 6 months
GeminiDRSoftware/DRAGONS
Mar 2009 - Jan 2023
Data Reduction for Astronomy from Gemini Observatory North and South
Contributions:10 releases, 13 reviews, 1097 commits in 14 years
gemini-datadata-reductionpythonobservatorygemini
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