Zachary Sherman
Software Engineer at Argonne National Laboratory
Lemont, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZachary Sherman is a software engineer with 10 years of experience developing scientific and geospatial software at Argonne National Laboratory. He builds and maintains code for the Geospatial Computing, Innovations, and Sensing group within the Environmental Science division, translating radar and environmental data into usable tools and analyses. His contributions to the widely used yt-project include enhancing CF-Radial support, adding map feature callbacks, and improving unit handling and tests—demonstrating expertise in data structures and scientific visualization. Zachary’s background in environmental science and hands-on radar data work informs a practical, domain-aware approach to engineering complex geospatial systems. Based in Lemont, Illinois, he combines research-rooted curiosity with production-grade software practices honed through long-term national lab projects. Colleagues describe him as a dependable bridge between environmental science needs and sustainable, test-driven software solutions.
10 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Environmental Science and Sustainability, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Environmental Science and Sustainability at Lewis UniversityBiology, Biology at Joliet Junior College
English
Github Skills (12)
data-visualizations10
data-visualization10
data-visualisation10
python10
scientific-computing10
data-model10
user-data10
data-set10
astrophysics9
analyse9
netcdf8
data-engineering8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
yt-project/yt
Aug 2018 - Jun 2022
Main yt repository
Role in this project:
Data Scientist
Data ScientistContributions:10 reviews, 17 commits, 25 comments in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Zachary primarily contributed to the yt-project/yt repository by modifying and enhancing the CF-Radial frontend. Their work includes modifying unit parameters in the fields, adding a list of fields, and incorporating new unit tests for domain specifications. They addressed documentation issues, and integrated a new MapFeaturesCallback to allow annotation of map features. This involved changes in data structures and integration of a grid on a cartesian coordinate system.
pythondatafinite-element-analysisgeophysicsnuclear-engineering
zssherman/beam_block
Feb 2017 - Apr 2017
Contributions:195 commits, 8 PRs, 107 pushes in 2 months
artbeamradarnetcdfcode-block
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