Steve Goldman
Senior Science Software Engineer at Space Telescope Science Institute
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSteve Goldman is a Senior Science Software Engineer at the Space Telescope Science Institute with eight years of experience building and leading calibration pipelines for Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes. A PhD-trained astronomer, he combines hands-on software engineering with domain expertise in evolved stars—particularly Asymptotic Giant Branch and red supergiant mass loss—to translate multiwavelength observations into reproducible science workflows. He has progressed from postdoc to pipeline lead, teaching and research roles, and brings practical experience in both research software and academic instruction. Based in Baltimore, he pairs rigorous astrophysical insight with production-grade software practices to ensure space telescope data are calibrated, documented, and usable by the wider community.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Physics, Bachelor's Degree, Physics at St. Lawrence UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Astronomy and Astrophysics at Keele University
Github Skills (41)
cookbook10
james10
astronomy10
telescope10
bayesian10
optical-flow10
drizzle10
distortion10
abaqus10
microscopy10
journal9
python9
sed9
stellar9
open-access8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
SOFIAObservatory/Recipes
Nov 2021 - Dec 2022
Cookbook recipes for SOFIA data analysis
Contributions:1 release, 338 commits, 68 PRs in 1 year 1 month
data-analysiscookbookrecipessofia
s-goldman/drizzlepac
Feb 2023 - Mar 2025
AstroDrizzle for HST images.
Contributions:2 PRs, 807 pushes, 219 branches in 2 years 1 month
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