Lea Hagen
ASIC Design And Implementation Automation Engineer
San Diego, California, United States
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Top SchoolLea Hagen is an ASIC design and implementation automation engineer with eight years of software engineering experience, currently working at NXP after senior and staff engineering roles at Qualcomm. Trained as an astrophysicist (PhD, Penn State), she transitioned from writing large-scale scientific Python code—authoring 17k+ lines for the BEAST modeling tool and winning significant supercomputer allocations—to building production-grade automation for semiconductor design. She combines rigorous scientific modeling, reproducible pipelines, and production software practices to solve complex, data- and compute-intensive problems. Based in San Diego, Lea brings cross-domain curiosity and a proven ability to scale niche research software into widely used tools, while maintaining a pragmatic focus on engineering reliability and automation.
8 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Astrophysics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Astrophysics at Penn State UniversityBachelor of Science - BS, Physics, Bachelor of Science - BS, Physics at Harvey Mudd College
English, Spanish
Github Skills (16)
stellar10
bayesian10
astrophysics10
astronomy10
python9
hierarchical9
planet8
ensembles7
mosaic7
galaxy7
beast6
imaging6
modeling4
astropy3
image-processing3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
UVOT-data-analysis/uvot-mosaic
Apr 2018 - Feb 2019
Create a calibrated mosaic of UVOT images
Contributions:72 commits, 30 PRs, 21 pushes in 10 months
uvotimagingmosaic
lea-hagen/beast
Oct 2017 - Jan 2021
Bayesian Extinction and Stellar Tool
Contributions:304 pushes, 169 branches in 3 years 3 months
stellarextinctionpythonbayesian
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