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 (14)
earth10
atmosphere10
visualization9
webgl9
prosemirror6
html6
pyqt6
odbc6
hyperlink6
postgresql6
python6
filepermissions6
google-sheet3
google-sheets2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
gravinamike/rig
Jul 2023 - Aug 2025
Contributions:139 pushes, 6 branches in 2 years 1 month
gravinamike/seahorse
Aug 2017 - Sep 2019
Contributions:24 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
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