Ratko Vasic
Meteorologist at NOAA
Cockeysville, Maryland, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRatko Vasic is a meteorologist with over two decades of experience developing and operationalizing numerical atmospheric models, currently contributing at NOAA since 2007. He has hands-on expertise with a broad suite of models (ETA, GFS, MM5, UCLA-AGCM, WRF-ARW/NMM, NMMB, FV3) and an unusual blend of research and technical management from roles at UCLA, Magnetron, and international hydrometeorological advising. In recent years he has shifted toward DevOps-style work on the UFS weather model, streamlining test and deployment infrastructure across HPC platforms like GAEA, WCOSS, Jet, and Cray. Based in Cockeysville, Maryland, he pairs operational forecasting needs with automation to accelerate model testing and releases. His career reflects both deep modeling knowledge and practical systems skills that help bridge atmospheric science and reproducible, production-ready workflows.
7 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Univerzitet u Beogradu
Serbian
Github Skills (11)
prediction10
automation10
script10
automations10
bash10
numerical10
weather10
devops10
numeric10
cicd8
slurm7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ufs-community/ufs-weather-model
Jun 2018 - Nov 2022
UFS Weather Model
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:25 reviews, 14 commits, 17 PRs in 4 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Ratko's contributions primarily involve modifying and configuring the testing and deployment infrastructure for the UFS weather model. They updated scripts related to testing on different computing platforms (e.g., GAEA, WCOSS, Jet, Cray), including environment variables, queue settings, and account configurations. Furthermore, the user made changes to the release process by updating files and modifying the paths for input data and test results. These changes suggest a focus on automation and streamlining the model's development and testing lifecycle.
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RatkoVasic-NOAA/ufs-srweather-app
Sep 2023 - Jan 2025
UFS Short-Range Weather Application
Contributions:8 reviews, 11 PRs, 182 pushes in 1 year 4 months
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