Who I am
I am an astronomer turned Research Software Engineer. I work at Caltech/IPAC to build and improve tools, e.g. Python libraries and Science Platforms to provide ways to access data in the NASA/IPAC Infrared Science Archive. Prior joining IPAC I was DiRAC Fellow in the data engineering team at the Institute for Data Intensive Research in Astrophysics and Cosmology in Seattle. I am a developer and maintainer of several open source astronomy libraries and their infrastructure (e.g. astroML, astroquery, astropy) and I enjoy contributing to upstream projects as well. I have a keen interest in finding ways to promote the open development model and make tools more sustainable. I am a fellow of the Software Sustainability Institute.