Kyle Shores
Software Engineer 3 at NSF NCAR - The National Center for Atmospheric Research
College Station, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolKyle Shores is a Software Engineer 3 with a decade of experience building high-performance scientific and cloud-native software, currently supervising a team at NSF NCAR in College Station. He blends deep atmospheric science expertise (MS, 4.0) with systems-level engineering—implementing C++ implicit ODE solvers, CUDA and JIT LLVM work, and cross-platform CI/CD to advance aerosol and chemistry modeling. Kyle has a strong track record of mentorship and program leadership, from hiring and UCAR mentorship committees to co-leading the MUSICA team and engaging undergraduate capstone projects. His background spans microservices, high-throughput C++ servers, and ML-for-atmospheric-science research, enabling practical deployments of climate-relevant tools. Colleagues rely on him for rigorous testing, reproducible packaging (PyPI releases), and inviting open-source contributions that lower the barrier for climate modeling adoption.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Pasadena Memorial High SchoolMaster of Science - MS, Atmospheric Science, 4.0, Master of Science - MS, Atmospheric Science, 4.0 at Texas A&M University
English
Stackoverflow
945reputation
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21answers
70questions
Github Skills (200)
prediction-model10
python10
gtk10
mapview10
google-maps10
netcdf10
qt10
unidata10
maps10
gatsby10
fastest10
cuda10
atmosphere10
matplotlib10
weather10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
K20shores/aoc
Dec 2023 - Dec 2024
Contributions:168 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year
NCAR/MechanismConfiguration
Jul 2023 - Apr 2025
A description of the CAMP chemistry mechanism configuration, with examples
Contributions:22 reviews, 72 PRs, 247 pushes in 1 year 8 months
atmospheric-chemistrychemical-modelling
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