Trey Roby
Senior Computer Scientist at Caltech
Monument, Colorado, United States
Summary
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RockstarTrey Roby is a Senior Computer Scientist with 13+ years building full-stack web applications for astronomical research, combining Java/Tomcat backends with modern JavaScript and React frontends. Based at Caltech, he leads design and development of core components and visualizations used by projects tied to telescopes such as WISE, Spitzer, and LSST. He’s skilled in UI design, ES6, DOM/CSS, AJAX, and object-oriented design patterns, and regularly authors the visualization pieces that make complex data accessible to scientists. Known for bridging research needs and production-grade systems, he brings a pragmatic, design-focused approach to solving domain-specific challenges in scientific software.
13 years of coding experience
Github Skills (33)
spin10
firefly10
jupyter10
forge10
jupyterlab10
php10
jupyterlab-extension10
jupyter-widget10
square10
logic10
render9
visualization9
python-api9
api9
science9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Caltech-IPAC/firefly
Jan 2013 - Jan 2023
Web-based UI library for astronomical data archive access and visualization
Contributions:65 releases, 735 reviews, 2493 commits in 10 years 2 months
fits-visualizationipaccatalogsphpgraphs
Caltech-IPAC/jupyter_firefly_extensions
Sep 2018 - May 2022
A jupyter lab extension that uses Firefly to render FITS data
Contributions:15 reviews, 23 commits, 16 PRs in 3 years 7 months
renderjupyterlab-extensionjupyter-notebookjupyterlabjupyter-lab-extension
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