Sterling Baldwin
Software Engineer at Planet
San Diego, California, United States
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Top SchoolSterling Baldwin is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building full-stack web apps and high-performance workflow tools for large-scale scientific simulation data. He has applied his skills at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and now at Planet, focusing on managing and processing hundreds of terabytes of climate and Earth-observation outputs. Currently pursuing an MSc in High Performance Computing at Trinity College Dublin, he specializes in distributed MPI programming and CUDA development to accelerate data-intensive pipelines. Sterling blends frontend experience (single-page Angular apps) with deep backend and tooling expertise, ensuring model outputs are paired with robust diagnostics and analysis. He thrives on turning "big data" into actionable science through scalable workflow automation and pragmatic engineering. Based in San Diego, he is seeking a full-time role beginning after graduation in September.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, high performance computing, Master of Science - MS, high performance computing at Trinity College DublinBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at California State University, Chico
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Github Skills (92)
json-table10
esgf10
cvs9
planet9
docker-container9
tablet9
conda9
api8
conda-forge8
ini-file8
web-frontend8
climate-model8
satellite-imagery8
weather8
anaconda8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
ACME-OUI/acme-web-fe
Jun 2016 - Feb 2017
acme over arching user interface (acme web front end)
Contributions:268 commits, 109 PRs, 59 pushes in 8 months
web-frontend
sterlingbaldwin/nabu
Oct 2020 - Feb 2022
A python tool for reading interactive fiction
Contributions:4 PRs, 110 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 3 months
pythonfictioninteractive-fictionpython-tool
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