Sara Ogaz
Software Engineer at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSara Ogaz is a software engineer with 11 years of experience applying Python and technical data analysis to astronomy and research software, currently building scientific solutions at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. With a Master's in Computer Science and a B.S. in Astrophysics, she blends rigorous domain knowledge in instrumentation and calibration with practical package development and engineering discipline from her long tenure at STScI. She has contributed to the widely used astropy project as a technical writer, improving documentation and examples that help researchers adopt the library more quickly. Sara’s background spans hands-on image calibration, research analytics, and production-grade science software, making her adept at translating complex scientific requirements into maintainable code and clear user-facing docs. Colleagues rely on her for bridging research needs and software best practices in multidisciplinary teams.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Towson UniversityUniversity of California Santa Cruz
Github Skills (5)
astropy10
documentation10
python8
astrophysics7
astronomy7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
astropy/astropy
May 2016 - Jun 2018
Astronomy and astrophysics core library
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:20 commits, 15 PRs, 190 comments in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Sara primarily contributed to documentation improvements within the `astropy/astropy` repository. Their work involved adding examples to the documentation, updating the affiliated packages section, and making the link to the compressed data section more clear. They also fixed white space issues and addressed comments from pull requests, improving the readability and clarity of the documentation. The commits show a focus on refining the documentation for various features and usage aspects.
astrologypythonscienceastrophysicsastrodynamics
SaOgaz/astropy
May 2016 - Jun 2018
Repository for the Astropy core package
Contributions:4 PRs, 76 pushes, 18 branches in 2 years 1 month
astropypythoncore-package
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