Summary
Todd Arbetter is a senior software engineer with a PhD-level background in atmospheric and oceanic sciences and over a decade of experience translating earth-science research into production-ready software. He blends deep scientific domain expertise in sea ice and polar climate with hands-on skills in Fortran, Python, MPI, HPC, and data formats like NetCDF/HDF, having accelerated research pipelines from days to minutes and modernized legacy IDL codebases into Python. Todd has worked across academia, government labs, and industry—contributing to operational forecasting tools, flight-navigation systems, and cloud-deployed mapping apps—while mentoring students and serving on NASA/NSF review panels. Comfortable in collaborative, distributed teams and agile environments, he is especially effective at turning complex scientific models into maintainable systems and reproducible workflows.
6 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Aerospace Engineering (Program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences), Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Aerospace Engineering (Program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences) at University of Colorado Boulder
B.S. Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering (Honors), B.S. Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering (Honors) at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
fortran, English, French, python