Mark Baker
Embedded Systems Engineer - Observations R&D - Met Office
Babergh, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMark Baker is an Embedded Systems Engineer and operational meteorologist with nine years of professional experience at the UK Met Office and a background in electronics and maritime operations. He pioneered the MetPod automatic weather station—an inexpensive, Iridium-enabled, easy-to-install platform that has been field-tested by the Met Office—and is the UK expert on shipborne Automatic Weather Systems. Combining hands-on instrumentation engineering with Python-based scientific software development, he now splits his time between observations R&D and developing the open-source 'Improver' NWP post-processing toolchain. His career blends frontline search-and-rescue and aviation weather advising with embedded ARM/Java and UNIX systems expertise, giving him a rare practical perspective on how sensors perform in real-world tactical conditions. Mark is an RMetS Registered Meteorologist and brings a pragmatic, systems-level approach to remote sensing, fault diagnosis, and deployable meteorological products.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Meteorology & Forecasting, Initial Forecaster Course, Forecaster Consolidation Course, Meteorology & Forecasting, Initial Forecaster Course, Forecaster Consolidation Course at UK Met Office CollegeVessel Traffic Services, Marine Traffic Management, V103, Vessel Traffic Services, Marine Traffic Management, V103 at Port of London AuthorityHNC, Electronics engineering, HNC, Electronics engineering at South Glamorgan Institute of Higher Education
German
Github Skills (8)
meteorology10
weather10
python10
noaa10
post-processing10
monitor5
wfs5
monitoring3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
markysparks/metpod-apps
Jul 2016 - Apr 2019
MetPod Web Applications
Contributions:50 PRs, 155 pushes, 54 branches in 2 years 9 months
web-applications
markysparks/Diversion-Monitor
Aug 2017 - Apr 2020
Utility to monitor diversion airfield METAR reports and TAFs. Requires access to a WFS server.
Contributions:3 releases, 16 PRs, 41 pushes in 2 years 8 months
diversionmonitorreportstafswfs
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