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.
14 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 (35)
documentation-generator10
pipeline10
idl10
testing9
journal9
open-access9
bmi8
data-processing8
academia7
textmate7
creative-commons7
fits6
spawn6
bash6
plot6
Programming languages (7)
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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