Thomas Cherry
Lead Software Enginear at The GCMD project at NASA (KBR/Wyle)
Catonsville, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolThomas Cherry is a Lead Software Engineer with 12+ years building and managing end-to-end web and data systems for NASA’s Global Change Master Directory, combining hands-on full-stack development with team and program leadership. He architects, implements, and supports solutions spanning databases, server-side services, and client interfaces while guiding process transitions from waterfall to agile and managing 4–6 engineers. His background includes online education and metadata management, and he contributes to open-source tooling—improving usability and Fish shell support for the popular powerline-shell prompt. Based in Catonsville, MD, he pairs practical customer-facing communication with long-range planning for science-driven projects, making complex Earth science data more discoverable and maintainable.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Software Engineering, Software Engineering at The University of Texas at AustinLeander HighschoolAS, Electronic Engineering, AS, Electronic Engineering at Austin Community College
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Github Skills (15)
shell10
python10
powerline10
developer-tools8
xcode6
maven6
eclipse6
gwt6
swift6
macos6
bash6
gnuplot6
java6
color-scheme5
zsh5
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
b-ryan/powerline-shell
Oct 2017 - Jul 2019
A beautiful and useful prompt for your shell
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 10 PRs, 38 comments in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Thomas primarily focused on enhancing the functionality and flexibility of the powerline-shell project, with a specific emphasis on shell prompt customization. Their contributions involved modifying the logic for displaying the current working directory and integrating support for the Fish shell. The user implemented changes to the configuration settings to improve user-friendliness and simplify the display of directory paths. Furthermore, they addressed issues and optimized the display of job information within the shell prompt.
pythonpowerlinedeveloper-toolsbashcolor-scheme
jceaser/markdownCGI
Jun 2014 - Jul 2017
Contributions:2 commits, 1 push, 1 branch in 3 years 1 month
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