Kristin Smith
Mountain Guide at Self-Employed
Boulder, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKristin Smith is a communications specialist and versatile writer with 11 years of professional experience spanning editorial leadership, freelance research, and outdoor guiding. She led the destinations department at Backpacker Magazine and now applies storytelling and technical communication at the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation. Her background in geology and history, plus five years guiding field teams, gives her a rare blend of earth-science expertise, risk management, and audience-focused content strategy. Kristin pairs hands-on data skills—ArcGIS, ERDAS Imagine, RStudio and Parse.ly—with CMS experience in WordPress and Blogger to translate complex science into accessible narratives. She also contributes to scientific software as a back-end developer, adding tested numerical features to the SpECTRE astrophysics codebase, illustrating comfort with collaborative code and rigorous validation. Based in Boulder, she combines outdoor leadership instincts with rigorous research habits to produce clear, accurate, and engaging content for technical and public audiences.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Arts - BA, HISTORY, Bachelor of Arts - BA, HISTORY at Montana State University-Bozeman
Github Skills (5)
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
linear-algebra10
testing10
cmake8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
sxs-collaboration/spectre
Jun 2017 - Jul 2021
SpECTRE is a code for multi-scale, multi-physics problems in astrophysics and gravitational physics.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:979 reviews, 521 commits, 176 PRs in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Kristin focused on implementing and testing new features within the SpECTRE astrophysics and gravitational physics code. Their contributions included adding a determinant calculation function and associated tests for rank-2 tensors. Additionally, they made improvements to existing test cases and refactored the code by moving specific functionality to the core "EagerMath" library for better code organization.
JCSDA-internal/fv3-jedi-data
Nov 2021 - Jul 2026
Test data for the fv3-jedi repository
Contributions:32 reviews, 22 PRs, 29 pushes in 4 years 8 months
test-data
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