Robert DeMaria received his BS in Computer Science from Colorado State University (2006). While a CSU student Robert worked as a student hourly at CIRA. During this time he was responsible for performing data processing jobs and miscellaneous programming support tasks. During the fall of 2006, he was the teaching assistant for the senior level computer graphics course at CSU. In 2007 he joined CIRA as a Research Associate I. In 2009 he became a Research Associate II. He currently provides programming support on a wide variety of projects by writing/debugging data pipelines, writing shared code libraries, and applying machine learning algorithms to solve atmospheric science problems. He is also an participant in the CIRA Software Engineering Group and provides training in Git, Python, and Continuous Integration to CIRA staff.