Carly Strasser
Independent Consultant
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCarly Strasser is a mission-driven strategist and independent consultant with 12+ years of experience advancing open science, research infrastructure, and philanthropic grantmaking. She has led programs at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and Fred Hutch, designing and operationalizing grant programs, community-building efforts, and data strategy initiatives that make research more collaborative and reproducible. With a PhD in biological oceanography and an Executive MBA in progress at Berkeley Haas, she blends scientific rigor with strategic and operational fluency. Carly’s rare combination of hands-on research experience and program leadership has produced concrete systems—like the Bioinformatics and Data Science Cooperative—that help researchers adopt data-intensive workflows. She specializes in advising philanthropies and funder coalitions on incentive design and open science policy, translating big ideas into measurable outcomes. Based in San Francisco, she is known for building values-aligned teams and practical tools that accelerate scientific progress.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Biological Oceanography, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Biological Oceanography at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyExecutive MBA, Executive MBA at University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of BusinessBA Marine Science, BA Marine Science at University of San Diego
Github Skills (22)
science7
machine-learning6
python6
bioinformatics5
java5
data-science5
tiddlywiki4
open-science3
plotly-dash3
distributed-computing2
reproducible-science2
documentation2
css1
rails1
metadata1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
DDD-Moore/early-career-puertorico
Feb 2016 - Jan 2017
Contributions:84 commits, 83 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
DDD-Moore/datasci-at-R1-institutions
Jun 2017 - Oct 2018
A (mostly) complete list of data science efforts at R1 institutions
Contributions:36 commits, 5 PRs, 33 pushes in 1 year 3 months
pythonsciencedata-sciencemachine-learninginstitutions
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