Todd Nicholson
Research Programmer At NCSA (National Center For Supercomputing Applications) University Of Illinoi
Urbana, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTodd Nicholson is a research programmer with a decade of experience building scientific and data-driven software at the University of Illinois’ NCSA and Coordinated Sciences Lab. With a BS in Mathematics, he blends strong graph theory, data science, and machine learning foundations to solve computational research problems and production software needs. He has a sustained history of translating academic research into usable code, having worked in both university research groups and the private sector at Parknav. Beyond code, Todd is passionate about community outreach—teaching software practices to community college and K–12 students—and brings creative energy from interests in music, theatre, puppetry, and comics that inform his collaborative, user-focused approach.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (80)
metadata10
data-management10
datasets10
extensible10
distribute10
organize10
annotate10
json10
bus10
json-ld10
ethereum9
analytics9
collections9
ref8
terra8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
terraref/search-api
Apr 2019 - Aug 2019
flask api for advanced search interface
Contributions:5 PRs, 152 pushes, 10 branches in 4 months
apipythonadvanced-searchflask-apiflask
initze/landsattrend
Nov 2022 - Jan 2025
Contributions:3 PRs, 248 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years 2 months
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