Tanim Islam, Developer in Livermore, CA, United States
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Tanim Islam

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Location
Livermore, CA, United States
Toptal Member Since
January 10, 2015

Tanim has a solid scientific background in using Python for research. He is an expert at using Python for scientific pre-processing, post-processing, and C and Fortran code wrapping. He has a Ph.D. in Astrophysics. For the past ten years, he has worked at a national lab on interesting physics projects in the US national interest. He has leveraged his skillset in scientific and numerical Python on data sets up to 1 TB in size.

FortranPythonNumPySciPyLinuxPyQt 4FlaskPyQt 5GitHubJavaMATLABCC++NVIDIA CUDAPyCharm

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

Emacs, GitHub, GitLab, Python 3, NumPy, SciPy, Scikit-learn, FFmpeg, Git

The most amazing...

...code I've written is a general pre-processing, post-processing, and testing Python codebase to enhance mature scientific code.

Work Experience

Physicist

2011 - PRESENT
Lawrence Livermore National Lab
  • Set up problems and implemented post-processing functionalities in Python and Fortran.
  • Made enhancements to VisIt (wci.llnl.gov/visit) visualization software.
  • Researched and incorporated new functionality into KIM3D particle-in-cell code.
  • Was responsible for stockpile stewardship.
  • Conducted general astrophysics research.
Technologies: C++, C, Fortran, Python

Software Engineer

2008 - 2011
University Affiliated Research Center
  • Supported air traffic control research.
  • Designed a fairly straightforward purely Java-based multiprocessing air traffic simulator useful in exploring research concepts.
  • Designed a Java-templated weather product application to help researchers more easily determine the effects of convective weather.
  • Published work on analysis of airspace tube structures, http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=4702805&tag=1.
  • Published work on metrics used to improve the performance of next-generation airspace structures, http://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/6.2010-8288.
Technologies: C++, C, Eclipse, Java

NPR Projects

https://github.com/tanimislam/nprstuff
These are simple snippets of code I find useful to download NPR programs that I like. Within the command-line tools, I also include a GUI used for printing and displaying the text of articles to online periodicals (The New Yorker, The New York Times, etc.) that no longer have a print option to their articles.

Metareadwrite

https://github.com/tanimislam/metareadwrite
C++ code that uses Boost libraries and music tagging libraries to read and write music metadata from the command line.

COVID-19 tracker

https://github.com/tanimislam/covid19_stats
Worked on the project that uses the NY Times COVID-19 database to visualize the progression of COVID-19 cases and deaths, cumulatively and seven-day averaged, over the continental United States, individual states, and major metropolitan areas.

Code documentation lives at https://tanimislam.github.io/covid19_stats. Daily update of COVID-19 trends lives at https://tanimislam.gitlab.io/blog/covid19-running-update.html.

NPRStuff

https://github.com/tanimislam/nprstuff
This project started as an API, and command-line tools, to download NPR's Fresh Air, Wait Wait, and PRI's This American Life. I have expanded the API and added tools that do common multimedia tasks in Python. These functionalities include the following: autocropping PDF and image files; conversion of movie files to animated GIFs; and concatenation of images as frames into MP4 files.

Sphinx documentation for this project lives at https://tanimislam.github.io/nprstuff.

Howdy

https://github.com/tanimislam/howdy
This repo contains the most comprehensive set of tools (API, CLI, GUI) to administer my Plex server.

GitHub repo lives at https://github.com/tanimislam/howdy.

Sphinx documentation for its tooling lives at https://tanimislam.github.io/howdy.

Daily update of my Plex server, using the howdy API, lives at https://tanimislam.gitlab.io/blog/plex-server-running-update.html

Languages

Python, Fortran, Java, C, C++, Python 3

Libraries/APIs

NumPy, SciPy, Matplotlib, PyQt 5, PyQt 4, PySide, FFmpeg, Scikit-learn

Other

Mathematics

Frameworks

Flask, Django

Tools

GitHub, Emacs, Bitbucket, PyCharm, MATLAB, GitLab, Git

Platforms

Linux, Eclipse, NVIDIA CUDA, Google App Engine, Amazon Web Services (AWS)

2003 - 2007

Doctorate in Astrophysics

University of Virginia - Charlottesville, VA

1997 - 2000

Bachelor's Degree in Physics

California Institute of Technology - Pasadena, CA

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