I’m an early-career software engineer with a good working knowledge of many Python things. I believe communication, collaboration, and a willingness to learn are crucial in all aspects of life. Like many others, I’m deeply concerned about the state of the world and I’m working hard to make a difference.
Experience
Software Engineer II
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Janurary 2022 - Present
- Proposed, designed, and delivered metrics and visualizations to help arm.gov justify its scientific value to congress.
- Contributed to improving climate models by working with scientists to develop cloud and aerosol data products.
- Developed internal tools to support test-driven development of data products, resulting in improved data reliability.
- Led development of tsdat, an open-source Python library targeted at standardizing renewable energy data.
- Enabled real-time processing of data by deploying 30+ a2e.energy.gov pipelines to AWS Lambda.
- Mentored new staff on exploratory projects, including AWS Timestream / Athena / JupyterHub, and Prefect.
- Unearthed tribal knowledge and documented best practices by creating an internal stackoverflow forum.
Software Engineer I
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, April 2020 - December 2021
- Developed data products to quantify meteorological processes at Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) measurement facilities globally.
- Drafted technical reports and documentation to improve the maintainability of arm.gov data products.
- Built and expanded tools to quantify the impact of ARM data and publications on the broader scientific community.
- Co-authored
tsdat, an open source python framework for building data ingestion pipelines.
- Used
tsdat to standardize 8 ocean meteorology datasets for the A2e program and consulted on several more ingests for other programs.
- Presented
tsdat in two several webinars with combined international attendance of 100+ people, and presented at the OCEANS 2021 conference in San Diego | Porto | Remote.
Software Development Engineer
Lewis & Clark College, Jan. 2018 - April 2020
- Designed and built applications for automating freshman seminar assignments, a task previously done by hand using Excel.
- Delivered .JAR application in Spring 2018 that places all students into one of their top 3 choices, exceeding client’s goals.
- Used Agile software development practices, leading to an increase in developer productivity and client satisfaction.
- Built www.sortinghat.org to increase functionality for 2020 adjustments to the freshman seminar series.
- For more information see maxwelllevin.com/projects/sortinghat.
Undergraduate Research Assistant: Machine Learning / Computer Vision
Lewis & Clark College, May 2018 - June 2019
- Researched effectiveness of CNNs on the segmentation of cloudy sky images compared to standard thresholding algorithm.
- Adapted Python codebase for cluster computer with over 140 CPUs, resulting in massive image-processing speedups.
- Examined dataset of over 100k sky images and fractional sky covers (FSC) and split into training and validation sets.
- Trained on 60k sky images, achieving 90% validation accuracy and more a accurate FSC than threshold approach.
- Meticulously documented over 100 experiments and presented research at several PNW conferences.
- Worked to familiarize future researchers with the codebase and project goals during Summer 2019.
- For more information see maxwelllevin.com/projects/sky.
Tutor: Math, CS, Physics
Symbolic & Quantitative Resource Center, Sep. 2016 - May 2019
- Taught positive psychology techniques and modelled good study habits, resulting in an increase of students’ self-efficacy.
- Coordinated with professors and other tutors to track students’ progress through particularly challenging material.
Homework Grader: PHYS 451 - Theoretical Dynamics
Lewis & Clark College, Jan. 2019 - May 2019
- Recorded homework scores and reported common areas in weekly meetings with the professor.
- Graded weekly homework assignments for ~16 students.
Teaching Assistant: CS 383 - Algorithm Design & Analysis
Lewis & Clark College, Sep. 2018 - Dec. 2018
- Responsible for taking role and helping with homework, allowing the professor more time to focus on lectures and tests.
- Worked closely with students during office hours, resulting in improved student comprehension and higher test scores.
Education
Bachelor of Arts: Computer Science and Mathematics from Lewis & Clark College in Portland, OR (May 2019)
Awards: Departmental honors in Computer Science and Mathematics, Pi Mu Epsilon, Dean’s List 5/8 semesters
GPA: 3.74 (Cum Laude)