Summary
Chris Rowe is a data-focused product and engineering leader with 11 years designing and shipping web-based tools and geospatial analytics for organizations from small nonprofits to Fortune 50s. Currently a Data Science Strategist at the World Resources Institute, he blends product ownership, agile practice, and hands-on data work—GIS mapping, IoT logging, server monitoring, and web analytics—to turn complex datasets into operational products. He has led distributed teams across six continents, driven cloud infrastructure and CI adoption, and managed high-impact projects like the Rural Opportunity Map and Resource Watch. A certified Scrum Product Owner with a background building offline learning systems and agricultural IoT proofs-of-concept, he brings pragmatic systems thinking and a long-standing commitment to open, verifiable data.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Proctor Academy
System Dynamics, System Dynamics at Universitetet i Bergen (UiB)
M.Ed. Eductional Technology, Educational Technology and Simulations, M.Ed. Eductional Technology, Educational Technology and Simulations at University of Texas at Brownsville
BA, Computer supported sustainable design and planning, BA, Computer supported sustainable design and planning at Hampshire College