Mike Mccann
Software Engineer at Web3D Consortium
Moss Landing, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMike Mccann is a seasoned software engineer with 14+ years focused on oceanographic data management and visualization at MBARI, blending deep domain expertise in physical and biological oceanography with strong software skills in Python, Matlab, and PostgreSQL. His career bridges research and engineering—from oceanographer and scientific visualization director at the Naval Postgraduate School to lecturing in computer science—so he excels at turning complex scientific data into usable, reproducible tools. Active in standards and community efforts as MBARI’s representative to the Open Geospatial Consortium and a long-serving member of the Web3D Consortium board, he shapes interoperability for geospatial and 3D data. Based in Moss Landing, he pairs academic rigor (MS in Physical Oceanography, advanced PhD work) with decades of consulting experience, bringing both practical systems-building and an eye for scientific insight to every project.
14 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS) Physical Oceanography, Master of Science (MS) Physical Oceanography at North Carolina State UniversityBachelor of Science (BS) Oceanography, Bachelor of Science (BS) Oceanography at Humboldt State UniversityABD Work toward PhD in Physical Oceanography, ABD Work toward PhD in Physical Oceanography at Naval Postgraduate School
Github Skills (114)
measurement10
ecology10
hydrology10
oceanography10
vagrant10
database10
measurements10
zarr10
visualization10
virtual-machine10
sar10
geospatial10
gis10
boilerplate10
django9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
biofloat/biofloat
Jul 2015 - Nov 2016
Software for working with oceanographic data from Bio-Argo drifting profiling floats.
Contributions:349 commits, 31 PRs, 5 comments in 1 year 3 months
floatsargoprofilingbio
oceansites/software
Apr 2016 - Jul 2018
Collection of software utilities and code in a variety of languages to search, create, manipulate or generally 'use' OceanSITES data
Contributions:31 commits, 5 PRs, 3 pushes in 2 years 2 months
code-golfpythondatamcfunctionlanguages
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