# Carlin Purcell

> Staff Software Engineer at Air Space Intelligence

Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/carlin

Writings and thoughts at carlin.blog

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Air Space Intelligence
Jan 2024 – Present | Boston, Massachusetts, États-Unis

### Senior Software Engineer @ Air Space Intelligence
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | Boston, Massachusetts, États-Unis

### Software Development Engineer III @ Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024

### Software Development Engineer II @ Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022

### Software Engineer I, II, III @ BLUE ORIGIN
Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 | Kent, WA
Data Archival Service
	-  Decreased cross-site data availability times by 85%, deleted 10% of the codebase, and ended a series of upload failures by eliminating the system's tight coupling with aging, failing hardware. For our team, this intervention decreased the system's operational burden and laid the groundwork for a cloud-based migration.  For our customers, data were available minutes after upload, rather than days.

Browser-based Timeseries Plotting Library
	-  Reduced rendering time by 99.8%.  This decrease allowed engineers to examine previously un-plottable timeseries, e.g., timeseries with 12 million points, which rendered in less than 300 milliseconds.
	-  Improved maintainability and reliability by modularizing the codebase and introducing tests on all state transitions. As a result, only three bugs were found during 1.5 years of daily use by hundreds of individuals.

Python Library for Timeseries Analysis
	-  Led transition from a restrictive, YAML-based DSL to a composable Python library by collecting customer feedback and gaining buy-in from stakeholders.

### Computer Science Academic Intern @ Vassar College
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017
Acted as a liaison between students and faculty and served as a peer tutor for all computer science courses.

### Independent Software Contractor @ Self Employed
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017
Decreased batch analysis time by 98.8% by creating a multithreaded Java program to analyze directories of turfgrass images.  This allowed turf experts to analyze images in minutes, rather than hours and has led to adoption by over 50 organizations.

Website: https://www.turfanalyzer.com/turf-analyzer

### Software Development Intern @ National Kidney Registry
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016
Created prototype of a program to provide alerts for kidney transport delays, eliminating the need for manual monitoring of red-eye flights. Designed a model to predict time until transplant for a given patient.

### Computer Science Teaching Assistant @ Vassar College
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016
Supervised and guided computer science labs.  Tutored, encouraged, and coached students. 

Courses coached: CMPU 101 – Introduction to Programming, CMPU 145 – Fundamental
Mathematics of Computer Science, CMPU 224 – Computer Organization.

### Undergraduate Researcher @ Michigan State University
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014
Explored and analysed research areas of Combinatorial Mathematics with a group of undergraduates.  Discovered novel results relating to set partitions, authored publications, and presented talks at The 12th Annual International Permutation Patterns Conference and The Mathematical Association of America’s Mathfest 2014.


## Education
### Bachelor’s Degree in Mathematics and Computer Science
Vassar College


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/carlinpurcell
- Portfolio: https://carlin.blog

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Last updated: 2026-03-28