Trygve Aspenes
Senior Engineer at Norwegian Meteorological Institute
Oslo, Norway
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Top SchoolTrygve Aspenes is a Senior Engineer based in Oslo with 10 years of software experience and a multi-decade career at the Norwegian Meteorological Institute working on 24/7 Linux systems that ingest, process and distribute remotely sensed satellite and radar data. He blends domain expertise in geophysics and meteorology with hands-on backend engineering, maintaining and interfacing C/C++ programs and Perl scripts for operational data pipelines. An active open-source contributor, he has improved the satpy Python library—adding image text overlays and hardening image processing and saving flows—to better support visualization of earth-observing data. Comfortable operating at the intersection of research and production, he pairs practical operational reliability with a strong background in atmospheric science.
9 years of coding experience
Hovedfag, Geophysics, Meteorology, Mathemathics, Hovedfag, Geophysics, Meteorology, Mathemathics at University of Bergen (UiB)unis
Github Skills (5)
python10
xa9
satellite9
weather9
xray9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
pytroll/satpy
Nov 2017 - Dec 2022
Python package for earth-observing satellite data processing
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:27 reviews, 12 commits, 54 PRs in 5 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Trygve contributed significantly to the `satpy` library, focusing on image processing and writing functionalities. They implemented a new function, `add_text`, to add text overlays to images, integrating with the `pydecorate` library. Further contributions include enhancing the image saving process and refactoring related functionalities. The user also made modifications to the core image processing functions to support more generalized pydecorate calls.
satellite-imagerypythonsatellitedata-processingearth
pytroll/pytroll-fengyun3-runner
Aug 2019 - Sep 2022
Pre-processor runner(s) for Feng-Yun 3 satellilte instrument(s)
Contributions:1 PR, 23 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
runnerpre-processor
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