resume.json

resume.json

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  "basics": {
    "name": "Joseph L. Sheedy",
    "label": "Staff Scientific Software & Data Engineer",
    "email": "joseph.sheedy@gmail.com",
    "location": {
      "address": "Oakland, CA"
    },
    "phone": "",
    "url": "https://josephsheedy.com",
    "summary": "Staff software engineer and team lead with M.S. in Atmospheric Science, building mission-critical weather systems for autonomous robotics and 20+ years in high-performance, large-scale engineering",
    "profiles": [
      {
        "network": "GitHub",
        "username": "jsheedy",
        "url": "https://github.com/jsheedy"
      },
      {
        "network": "LinkedIn",
        "username": "josephsheedy",
        "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/joseph-sheedy"
      }
    ]
  },
  "work": [
    {
      "name": "Zipline",
      "location": "South San Francisco, CA",
      "position": "Staff Scientific Software Engineer",
      "url": "https://www.zipline.com",
      "startDate": "2022-05-01",
      "endDate": "2025-12-10",
      "highlights": [
        "Conceptualized, architected, built, deployed, and maintained an operational weather nowcast system automating go/no-go decisions for thousands of daily commercial autonomous drone flights around the globe",
        "Weather safety targets exceeded in commercial operations",
        "Engineered Cloud-native services to generate and communicate nowcast and observational data",
        "Joined Data Platform team to design and implement the company's log data lake and telemetry ETL+API services, unlocking fleet wide log analysis",
        "Procured off the shelf ground weather stations, built ETL and API services, and integrated into the infrastructure",
        "Installed and integrated end-to-end a remote weather satellite downlink station",
        "Mentored engineers and drove projects end-to-end from concept through long-term maintenance"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Saildrone",
      "location": "Alameda, CA",
      "position": "Senior Weather Forecast Engineer & Platform Engineer",
      "url": "https://www.saildrone.com",
      "startDate": "2019-01-01",
      "endDate": "2022-04-01",
      "highlights": [
        "Led Weather and Data Pipeline teams",
        "Architected and developed first company data lake, unlocking fleet wide analytics",
        "Built one-click end-to-end solution for offloading payload and telemetry data from drones over wired network or hand carried intelligent portable storage devices", 
        "Re-engineered global weather forecast system from first principles resulting in higher quality forecasts for fleet operations and commercial applications teams while achieving orders-of-magnitude efficiency and cost improvements",
        "Designed and deployed cloud-native Python services using chunked gridded storage (Zarr, NetCDF) processing >100 GB of forecast data daily with low latency",
        "Owned Kubernetes deployments and observability infrastructure for production forecast platform, enabling path planning of a global autonomous fleet",
        "Mentored engineers and drove projects end-to-end from concept through long-term maintenance"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Rooster Park",
      "location": "Seattle, WA",
      "position": "Senior Software Developer",
      "startDate": "2018-05-01",
      "endDate": "2018-12-01",
      "highlights": [
        "Founding full stack engineer for a political domain analytics engine and CMS",
        "Stood up React frontend, Python backend, AWS infrastructure, and CI/CD for hyper-growth phase"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Rooster Park / Vulcan Inc.",
      "location": "Seattle, WA",
      "position": "Senior Software Developer",
      "url": "https://www.vulcan.com",
      "startDate": "2014-12-01",
      "endDate": "2017-08-01",
      "highlights": [
        "Converted from Rooster Park contract to FTE after successful full rewrite of the Sea Around Us fisheries model and analysis tools",
        "Led migration of legacy Visual Basic / ASP.NET ecological modeling suite to high-performance Postgres/Python/Angular resulting in large usability and performance gains",
        "Open-sourced core components including D3-based mapping framework to meet geographic projection requirements",
        "Designed and shipped real-time RabbitMQ event system for radio-collar wildlife tracking",
        "Developed high-precision AR prototypes in Unity3D + Python/OpenCV/numpy for beacon-based localization",
        "Developed AR vision system for sporting events (US Patent 10,325,410: Augmented Reality For Enhancing Sporting Events)"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "University of Washington Professional & Continuing Education",
      "location": "Seattle, WA",
      "position": "Part-time Instructor – Python 300",
      "startDate": "2013-04-01",
      "endDate": "2015-06-01",
      "highlights": [
        "Created curriculum and taught the Python professional certificate program",
        "Delivered classes on-site at UW and off-site for corporate clients"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Velotron Heavy Industries",
      "location": "Seattle, WA",
      "position": "Owner & Lead Developer",
      "startDate": "2007-08-01",
      "endDate": "2014-12-01",
      "highlights": [
        "Delivered dozens of commercial and research projects across weather, fisheries, energy, and interactive art",
        "Built and commercially successful educational platform for poker with integrated e-commerce, video streaming, and social components",
        "Created a gesture and voice controlled Windows application as prototype for smart appliances (Ember.js + C# .NET)",
        "Designed weather model management systems and wind power forecast delivery portals"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "ClipCard (formerly OneOcean)",
      "location": "Seattle, WA",
      "position": "Senior Developer",
      "startDate": "2012-06-01",
      "endDate": "2014-03-01",
      "highlights": [
        "Core engineer on distributed Django metadata extraction platform for oceanographic datasets",
        "Integrated proprietary formats, cloud storage, and multiple distributed task queues"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "3TIER (now Vaisala)",
      "location": "Seattle, WA",
      "position": "Developer & Systems Administrator",
      "startDate": "2003-05-01",
      "endDate": "2007-08-01",
      "highlights": [
        "Built end-to-end meteorological data collection, modeling, and web delivery systems",
        "Managed large Linux clusters running numerical weather models",
        "Introduced modern software development practices"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Chronotechnic",
      "location": "Seattle, WA",
      "position": "Java Developer",
      "startDate": "2002-08-01",
      "endDate": "2003-05-01"
    },
    {
      "name": "OEOne",
      "location": "Gatineau, QC",
      "position": "IT Manager & Developer",
      "startDate": "2001-02-01",
      "endDate": "2002-07-01"
    },
    {
      "name": "Arctic Fox Technology Incorporated",
      "location": "Fairbanks, AK",
      "position": "President & Technical Consultant",
      "startDate": "2000-04-01",
      "endDate": "2001-02-01"
    },
    {
      "name": "University of Washington",
      "location": "Seattle, WA",
      "position": "Scientific Programmer & Web Developer",
      "startDate": "1996-01-01",
      "endDate": "1998-06-01"
    },
    {
      "name": "New Mexico Tech at Langmuir Laboratory",
      "location": "Socorro, NM",
      "position": "Field Tech & Software Developer",
      "startDate": "1997-06-01",
      "endDate": "1998-09-01"
    }
  ],
  "education": [
    {
      "institution": "University of Alaska Fairbanks",
      "area": "Atmospheric Science",
      "studyType": "M.S.",
      "startDate": "1998-09-01",
      "endDate": "2000-02-01"
    },
    {
      "institution": "University of Washington",
      "area": "Atmospheric Science",
      "studyType": "B.S.",
      "startDate": "1994-09-01",
      "endDate": "1998-06-01"
    },
    {
      "institution": "University of Washington",
      "area": "Physics",
      "studyType": "B.S.",
      "startDate": "1994-09-01",
      "endDate": "1998-06-01"
    }
  ],
  "certificates": [
    {
      "name": "Neural Networks and Deep Learning",
      "issuer": "Coursera (deeplearning.ai)"
    }
  ],
  "skills": [
    {
      "name": "Languages & Tools",
      "keywords": [
        "Python", "Typescript", "UNIX shell", "Ruby", "Go", "C/C++", "C#", "Rust", "Java", 
        "Kubernetes", "AWS", "FastAPI", "React", "deck.gl", "D3.js",
        "GLSL", "Unity3D"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Data & Science",
      "keywords": [
        "Numerical weather prediction", "Parquet", "Zarr", "NetCDF", "xarray", "Dask", "OpenCV", "scipy",
        "DuckDB", "PostGIS", "H3", "Kafka", "RabbitMQ", "python-asyncio", "HRRR", "MRMS", "METAR", "ECMWF", "GOES", "EUMETSAT"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Leadership & Practices",
      "keywords": [
        "Team lead", "Mentor", "System Architecture", "CI/CD", "Observability"
      ]
    }
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