Kirk North
Senior Staff Software Engineer at AUMOVIO
Detroit, Michigan, United States
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Top SchoolKirk North is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with 13 years of experience blending physical science and production-grade software development to solve data-driven problems. He has a strong background in atmospheric science and radar remote sensing, contributing open-source algorithmic improvements to the widely used Py-ART radar toolkit (including Doppler dealiasing and echo classification). At Continental he translated research-grade algorithms into automotive ADAS features—owning requirements and algorithm development for safety-critical systems—and now continues that work in industry leadership roles. Comfortable in both research and product environments, he pairs test-driven engineering with numerical methods and occasional Fortran/Cython integrations to bridge legacy science code and modern software stacks. Based in Detroit, he’s known for turning complex quantitative research into deployable systems that serve national labs, OEMs, and open scientific communities.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc) Atmospheric Science, Master of Science (MSc) Atmospheric Science at McGill University
English, French
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Github Skills (10)
python10
data-science9
cython9
fortran9
parallel-processing6
openmp6
python-c-extension6
data-visualization4
data-visualisation4
data-visualizations4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ARM-DOE/pyart
Mar 2013 - Oct 2016
The Python-ARM Radar Toolkit. A data model driven interactive toolkit for working with weather radar data.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Data Scientist
Back-end Developer & Data ScientistContributions:52 commits, 7 PRs, 82 comments in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Kirk primarily contributed to the pyart repository by enhancing the 4DD Doppler dealiasing algorithm and adding a new echo classification module. Their work involved modifying core Python files, including dealias.py, and cython wrappers. They also introduced Fortran code for a new echo classification method. Their contributions suggest a focus on improving radar data processing and retrieval capabilities.
model-drivenpythonradar-processingradardata-driven-model
kirknorth/pyart
Mar 2014 - Oct 2015
Contributions:34 commits, 2 PRs, 41 pushes in 1 year 7 months
model-drivenpythonradardata-driven-modelradar-data
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