Mark Piper
Research Software Engineer at University of Colorado Boulder
Boulder, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMark Piper is a research software engineer with 12 years' experience building open-source cyberinfrastructure for model coupling and benchmarking at CU Boulder’s INSTAAR, supporting the NSF-funded CSDMS community. He combines a deep academic background (Ph.D. in planetary and atmospheric sciences) with practical product and customer-facing experience from a decade at L3Harris, making him equally comfortable in code, documentation, and stakeholder-facing roles. An advocate for reproducible science, he focuses on uncertainty quantification in Earth-surface process models and trains early-career scientists to adopt robust software practices. Mark is also a strong documentation and UX-minded contributor to key open-source tools such as the widely used Landlab project, where he has improved installation, tutorials, and citation accuracy to lower barriers for new users.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Mathematics, B.S., Mathematics at University of Wisconsin-MadisonM.S., Meteorology, M.S., Meteorology at Penn State UniversityPh.D., Astrophysical, Planetary, and Atmospheric Sciences, Ph.D., Astrophysical, Planetary, and Atmospheric Sciences at University of Colorado at Boulder
Github Skills (6)
rs10
restructuredtext10
sphinx10
documentation10
jupyter-notebook6
python5
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
landlab/landlab
Mar 2021 - Jan 2023
Landlab codebase, wiki, and tests
Role in this project:
Technical Writer & Documentation Specialist
Technical Writer & Documentation SpecialistContributions:55 reviews, 5 commits, 12 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Mark primarily focused on updating and improving the project's documentation. They made significant revisions to installation instructions, tutorials, and the main documentation files, enhancing clarity and user experience. Their contributions included fixing broken links, updating examples, and adding information on running notebooks, showing a strong emphasis on making the project more accessible and user-friendly. They also updated citations and references to ensure accuracy.
codebasewikilandlab
mdpiper/fortran-python
Sep 2018 - Dec 2018
Contributions:129 commits, 40 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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