Chiara Lepore
Weather Quantitative Researcher
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChiara Lepore is a Weather Quantitative Researcher with nearly two decades of expertise translating climate and geophysical science into production-ready machine learning and big-data pipelines. She has led end-to-end projects from research to scalable cloud deployments—cutting CMIP6 and operational forecast processing from weeks to days and reducing daily costs tenfold—using the Pangeo stack, AWS, Docker, and ARCO data formats. Her background spans academia (Lamont-Doherty, MIT) and industry (Gro Intelligence, Squarepoint), where she builds harmonized, bias-adjusted datasets and probabilistic models for severe weather, landslides, and other hazards. A hands-on software developer and mentor, she pairs deep knowledge of reanalysis and forecast systems (ERA5, GFS/GEFS, NMME, CMIP6) with practical data-engineering solutions for terabyte-scale analyses. Notably, she developed a high-performance Python package for global convective parameter computations, reflecting a penchant for building tools that speed science at scale. Based in New York, she bridges rigorous academic research and operational climate risk modeling for stakeholders across insurance and finance.
9 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
phD Civil and Environmental Engineering hydrology, phD Civil and Environmental Engineering hydrology at Università degli Studi di Salernovisiting scholar hydrology, visiting scholar hydrology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
English, Italian
Github Skills (87)
datasets10
pandas9
python9
netcdf9
prediction9
jupyterlab9
docker9
aws9
weather-data9
jupyter9
dask9
jupyter-notebook9
espn8
oceanography8
meteorology8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
chiaral/xcape
Oct 2019 - Oct 2020
Fast convective parameters for numpy, dask, and xarray
Contributions:84 pushes, 17 branches in 1 year
parameterspythonnumpydaskconvective-parameters
chiaral/xtreme_precip
Dec 2019 - Oct 2020
Contributions:21 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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