Michael Gravina
Senior Research Software Engineer at Purdue University
Village of Floral Park, New York, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Gravina is a Senior Research Software Engineer with a decade of focused experience building full-stack, data-driven tools for academic, healthcare, and industrial research environments. He combines UI design, cloud and server infrastructure, spatial data pipelines, and computational modeling to turn complex scientific and geospatial datasets into accessible web products and interactive visualizations. His background spans laboratory automation and genomics at MIT to climate and glacier data systems, giving him rare fluency across wet lab instrumentation, large-scale data ingestion, and user-centered interfaces. Known for mentoring students and standardizing reproducible pipelines, he excels at delivering maintainable solutions under tight budgets and data constraints. Based in Floral Park, NY, he brings an ethical, human-centered perspective to engineering that balances technical rigor with real-world impact.
9 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BA Environmental Science, BA Environmental Science at Clark UniversityMS Biology, MS Biology at Harvard University Extension School
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Github Skills (19)
atmosphere9
earth8
fluid7
html6
hyperlink6
prosemirror6
pyqt6
filepermissions6
odbc6
python6
threejs6
visualization6
javascript6
postgresql6
webgl5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
gravinamike/rig
Jul 2023 - Jun 2024
Contributions:138 pushes, 6 branches in 10 months
gravinamike/seahorse
Aug 2017 - Sep 2019
Contributions:24 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
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