Alessandro Filazzola
Adjunct Faculty at Western University
Guelph, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolAlessandro Filazzola is a data scientist and quantitative ecologist with a PhD in Ecology and over a decade of experience translating ecological research into scalable data products. He builds end-to-end pipelines and web applications that turn large environmental datasets—millions of occurrence records, anonymized mobile-phone traces, and high-resolution aerial imagery—into actionable insights for conservation and urban greenspace management. His work spans automated species distribution modeling at supercomputer scale, ecological forecasting of lake ice and economic impacts, and image-classification tools for snowpack estimation. As adjunct faculty at Western and a practitioner at ApexRMS, he uniquely blends academic rigor with product-focused development, including deploying SyncroSim workflows to the web. Notably, he has developed QA/QC methodologies to elevate community science data to research-grade quality, demonstrating a meticulous attention to data provenance and reproducibility.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Ecology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Ecology at York University
Stackoverflow
23reputation
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Github Skills (15)
linux6
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rjava6
java6
combinations3
jwt2
authorize2
endpoint2
forecast2
earth2
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package1
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
afilazzola/nursemechanisms.GEB
Jul 2016 - Jun 2021
Contributions:6 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 11 months
afilazzola/grazing.meta
Nov 2018 - Apr 2020
Contributions:90 commits in 1 year 5 months
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