Bruce Wilson
Consultant at Freelance
Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBruce Wilson is a consultant and former NASA Earth science data manager with 15+ years leading large teams and cyberinfrastructure at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Trained as a chemist with a Ph.D., he blends domain science (remote sensing, spectroscopy, chemistry) with hands-on expertise in scientific data management, identity and access systems, and analytics. He led the ORNL Distributed Active Archive Center and previously architected enterprise identity, security, and endpoint management for a national lab environment supporting massive R&D programs. Known for turning complex scientific workflows into reliable, usable systems, he also taught and mentored information science students and helped build DataONE’s open data cyberinfrastructure. Now open to part-time consulting, he brings a rare mix of lab research insight, large-scale operational experience, and practical systems engineering.
15 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Ph.D. at University of WashingtonB.S., B.S. at Michigan State University
Github Skills (62)
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creative-commons8
academia8
lidar6
nasa-data6
rfc5
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latex5
open-science4
solace4
ldap4
radiance4
pypy4
renewable-energy4
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
usethedata/profile-site
Sep 2025 - May 2026
Contributions:16 pushes, 3 branches in 8 months
usethedata/weather-tools
Jan 2026 - May 2026
Contributions:1 PR, 11 pushes, 2 branches in 4 months
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