Tanim I.

Tanim I.

Software Developer

Livermore, CA
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About Me

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.

Work history

Lawrence Livermore National Lab
Physicist
2011 - Present (13 years)
Remote
  • 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.

University Affiliated Research Center
Software Engineer
2008 - 2011 (3 years)
Remote
  • 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.

Portfolio

NPR Projects

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

C++ code that uses Boost libraries and music tagging libraries to read and write music metadata from the command line.

COVID-19 tracker

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

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

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

Education

Education
Doctorate in Astrophysics
University of Virginia
2003 - 2007 (4 years)
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Physics
California Institute of Technology
1997 - 2000 (3 years)