Patrick Ingraham
Associate Research Professor
Tucson, Arizona, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPatrick Ingraham is an associate research professor and instrumentation specialist with 13 years of hands-on experience designing, building, and commissioning astronomical instruments and calibration hardware. Based in Tucson, he combines optical design, systems engineering, FPGA and software development, and integration/test expertise—skills honed through leadership of LSST calibration hardware and commissioning work on the Gemini Planet Imager. His PhD work blended experimental optics, control electronics and pipeline development, reflecting a rare mix of lab engineering and data-reduction software craftsmanship. Patrick is comfortable moving between observatory operations and research, and often bridges the gap between precision hardware requirements and production-grade scientific software.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Physics and Astronomy, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Physics and Astronomy at University of VictoriaDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Physics, PhD, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Physics, PhD at Université de Montréal
English, French, Spanish
Github Skills (36)
reduction10
xml-schema10
telescope10
planet10
xml10
sal9
pipeline9
breakout9
csc8
gemini7
obs7
compose7
system-integration7
cycle6
docker-compose6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
lsst-tstn/tstn-017
Apr 2020 - Jan 2022
Handling CSC configuration and ancillary data.
Contributions:25 reviews, 8 PRs, 15 pushes in 1 year 9 months
ancillaryhandlingcsc
patrickingraham/planets
Sep 2016 - Jul 2019
exercise for python course
Contributions:2 PRs, 8 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 10 months
pythonpython-course
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