Matt Welsh
Astronomer at High Valley Observatory
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatt Welsh is an astronomer-turned-software leader based in Mountain View with over two decades of experience bridging hands-on engineering, UX design, and computational astronomy. He built and ran High Valley Observatory, designing custom instrumentation and publishing variable-precision orbital tools while evolving narrowband and solar astrophotography workflows from Silicon Valley’s light-polluted skies. Professionally he has led UX and identity teams at PayPal and Intuit and earlier architected extensible Java frameworks and developer tools at companies like Borland, Quest, and Cast Iron. Comfortable shifting between low-level engineering and human-centered design, he combines rigorous orbital computation skills with a designer’s eye for user flows and visual assets. Outside work he prepares fossils, designs LEGO modulars, and experiments with high-powered lasers—details that underscore a persistent maker mindset and curiosity across disciplines.
6 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
California State University - East Bay
Github Skills (9)
model-conversion10
coremltools9
editing9
validation9
machine-learning8
pytorch8
coreml8
tensorflow7
deep-learning6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
mdwelsh-apple/coremltools
Jan 2020 - Jan 2020
Core ML Community Tools.
Contributions:2 branches in 1 day
data-sciencedeep-learningmachine-learningmlopscoreml
apple/coremltools
Jan 2020 - Jan 2020
Core ML tools contain supporting tools for Core ML model conversion, editing, and validation.
Contributions:2 commits, 2 PRs, 1 push in 1 day
pytorchmodel-conversionvalidationdeep-learningmachine-learning
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