Rob Casey
IRIS Data Services Deputy Director of Cyberinfrastructure
Greater Seattle Area
Rob currently serves as Deputy Director of Cyberinfrastructure at the Incorporated
Research Institutions for Seismology (IRIS) Data Management Center (DMC) in Seattle, WA. His responsibilities include management of software development and data services activities as well as leading efforts to continually improve and expand the accessibility of a half-petabyte data archive to the global scientific community. Rob has worked at IRIS for 25 years in many different capacities and has developed software to author seismic metadata, discover data for earthquakes, and federate bulk data requests to international data facilities. As Deputy Director of Quality Assurance, he led a talented group to build a 10TB analytics system for continual quality tracking of the entire DMC's data holdings, called MUSTANG. Rob graduated from the University of Washington with a Bachelors in Electrical Engineering.
Software Development (Java, Python, R, C)
Postgres, RDBMS
Seismic Data Processing
Seismic Data Access
Seismic Data Quality Analysis
Web Services
Metadata Management