Syed Gilani
Senior Software Engineer at Space Telescope Science Institute
Washington DC-Baltimore Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSyed Gilani is a Senior Software Engineer with six years of focused industry experience and a longer history in software development and academia, currently building backend systems at the Space Telescope Science Institute. He brings strong skills in databases, web applications, CI, and Agile/Scrum practices, with hands-on experience across .NET and Python ecosystems. Syed contributed to the well-known astroquery project by implementing a MAST API wrapper and accompanying unit tests, demonstrating an ability to extend scientific data-access tooling. His background includes enterprise and research environments—from GWU to startups—where he led feature development, testing, and technical design. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic ownership of product issues and for translating complex requirements into reliable, testable code. His combination of academic roots as a former lecturer and practical engineering in space-science software gives him a unique perspective on building reproducible, data-driven systems.
6 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
MS Computer Science, Computer Science, MS Computer Science, Computer Science at The George Washington UniversityMS Computer Science, Computer Science, MS Computer Science, Computer Science at gwu
Github Skills (5)
astroquery10
astropy10
python10
astronomy9
testing8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
astropy/astroquery
Jun 2021 - Mar 2022
Functions and classes to access online data resources. Maintainers: @keflavich and @bsipocz and @ceb8
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 reviews, 51 commits, 2 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Syed implemented a wrapper for the MAST missions search API to query online data resources. This involved creating new Python modules and classes within the astroquery/mast directory. The user's changes included modifications to core files and test files to add a unit test. The work focused on interacting with and extending the functionality of the MAST API.
pythondataastropy-affiliatedastropyastronomy
syed-gilani/astroquery
Jun 2021 - Mar 2022
Functions and classes to access online data resources. Maintainers: @keflavich and @bsipocz and @ceb8
Contributions:58 pushes, 2 branches in 8 months
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