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rvanasa/README.md

Hi, I'm Ryan Vandersmith

R&D software engineer building forecasting, visualization, and analysis tools for meteorology and atmospheric science.

📍 Amherst, Massachusetts  ·  🧑‍💻 10+ years of engineering  ·  🌩️ self-taught meteorology

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🧭 Experience

  • DFINITY Foundation (2022–2026): Motoko tooling, EVM integrations, developer experience, Caffeine.ai
  • Plexa Technologies (2017–2022): Full-stack Progressive Web Apps
  • University of Colorado Boulder (2018): Rust research visualization
  • Douglas County School District (2014–2017): Bus tracking, REST APIs, intern mentorship

🌦️ Interests and projects

  • 🌩️ Weather and atmospheric science: forecasting tools for photographers, storm chasers, and researchers, including Mesoview, a cloud inversion forecast, a mountain wave visualization, and a stepwise CAPE/CIN contribution to SounderPy.
  • 🛠️ Programming languages and developer tools
  • 📊 Data visualization and analysis
  • 🤝 UX research and technical mentorship

⚙️ Tech

TypeScript JavaScript Rust Python React Node.js WebAssembly NumPy Pandas MetPy

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  1. pandas-gpt pandas-gpt Public

    Power up your data science workflow with ChatGPT.

    Jupyter Notebook 61 9

  2. mesoview mesoview Public

    A mobile-friendly interface for SPC Mesoanalysis.

    TypeScript 1

  3. Blocks-Editor/blocks Blocks-Editor/blocks Public

    Blocks. An online drag-and-drop smart contract builder.

    JavaScript 163 33

  4. rimworld-cities rimworld-cities Public

    RimCities - A procedural city generator mod for RimWorld.

    C# 36 8