cortadocodes / aqi

Measure the local air quality index (AQI) based on PM2.5 and PM10 concentrations.

Hi there, I'm cortadocodes 👋

About me

I'm a Senior Software Engineer at Octue where I build data and cloud solutions for scientists. My work focuses on automating various parts of the wind industry (and sometimes other renewable energy tech) and, as a big fan of FOSS, I'm happy that the majority is open-source.

What I've been up to

Publications/conferences

• Aerosense project:
  • WindEurope conference presentation
  • WindEurope conference poster
  • WindTech International publication

Software

• Dockerising OpenFAST (NREL's wind farm/turbine simulation software) to aid its deployment as part of a serverless cloud analysis pipeline, making analyses highly parallelisable, automatable, and scalable - all without the need for costly permanent infrastructure
• Building Octue's Twined framework - an event-driven digital twin / microservices framework for easily running serverless digital twins and data services
  • Powers WindPioneers' WindQuest wind farm design software
  • Runs our OpenFAST and TurbSim data services
• Modernising WindQuest's staff admin app, delivering a 5x speed-up of daily staff workflows
• Writing a wind turbine "data gateway" for the Aerosense project that uploads data from turbine sensors to the cloud in real time for processing and storage
• Creating GraphQL APIs for Strands (our JSON schema version control and publishing system) and some other exciting upcoming apps...

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• Creating a global Elevations Service, API and python client that uses the NASA Copernicus dataset and the H3 hexagonal hierarchical coordinate system to provide the elevation of any coordinate on the planet
• Working on our other tools:
  • Creating a suite of tools to automate Octue's release flow based on Conventional Commits - automated release notes, Conventional Commit pre-commit hook, and semantic version checker
  • Writing a set of reusable workflows and GitHub Actions to automate deployment and management of Octue APIs and data services

Skills

• Cloud computing/engineering with a focus on event-driven serverless microservices
• Containerisation/dockerisation
• Writing REST and GraphQL Django APIs
• Writing and publishing python libraries
• Writing data services to automate and scale previously manual data processing
• Automating devops with GitHub Actions, pre-commit, and other tools

My approach

• Test-driven
• Modular
• Clean coding
• Automated CI/CD
• Conventional Commits for automated semantic releases and release notes

aqi's Issues

Make sleep and wake commands idempotent

Ensure existing file is appended to or created if not present

Fix python encoding issue

Add UK AQI to each reading

Convert to python3

Add plotting of concentrations and AQI