Mike Galloy
Software Engineer Programmer IV at NCAR - The National Center for Atmospheric Research
Lafayette, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolMike Galloy is a software engineer with 13 years at the intersection of scientific computing, data visualization, and high-performance computing, currently maintaining data pipelines for the Mauna Loa Solar Observatory at NCAR. He holds a Ph.D. in Mathematics and brings deep expertise in IDL, CUDA, and Python from roles spanning research mathematics to instructor/consultant work. Mike’s background combines rigorous mathematical modeling with hands-on engineering of performant pipelines and visualization tools for scientific communities. Based in Lafayette, Colorado, he has led HPC and data-handling projects as a principal investigator and still teaches and documents complex workflows, making him as comfortable mentoring users as optimizing GPU kernels. An avid math enthusiast, he also shares a presence on federated platforms (mgalloy@mstdn.social), reflecting broad curiosity beyond traditional open-source channels.
13 years of coding experience
Ph.D., Mathematics, Ph.D., Mathematics at University of KentuckyB.S., Mathematics, B.S., Mathematics at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (34)
java10
idl10
pipeline9
open-access8
bmi8
journal8
academia7
creative-commons6
fits6
spawn6
textmate6
bash6
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
NCAR/kcor-utilities
Dec 2019 - Oct 2023
Contributions:26 pushes, 1 branch, 1 issue in 3 years 11 months
mgalloy/ridl
Oct 2012 - Nov 2017
Contributions:37 commits, 6 pushes, 4 comments in 5 years 1 month
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