Derek Roberts
Senior Turbine Performance Engineer at DNV
Sacramento, California, United States
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Top SchoolDerek Roberts is a Senior Turbine Performance Engineer with 11 years of experience translating high-frequency environmental and sensor data into actionable decisions for water quality and wind energy projects. Trained as an environmental fluid mechanic (PhD/MS, UC Davis), he has built and managed distributed sensor networks from Lake Tahoe to San Francisco Bay and shifted that expertise to assessing wind turbine performance and emerging wind measurement technologies. He combines end-to-end technical skills—sensor deployment, cloud data pipelines, QA/QC, statistical modeling and Python tooling—with program and project leadership on multi‑hundred‑thousand to multi‑million dollar engagements. At DNV he’s led best-practice development for power performance testing and implemented nacelle-based lidar assessment workflows under IEC standards. Known as a pragmatic data skeptic and producer, he asks “what should we measure and why?” to reduce uncertainty and inform policy or operational decisions. His background as a Peace Corps educator and construction engineer also brings a human-centered, field-tested perspective to cross-disciplinary teams.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, MS, Water Resources Engineering (Environmental Fluid Mechanics), PhD, MS, Water Resources Engineering (Environmental Fluid Mechanics) at University of California, DavisBachelor of Science (BS), Civil and Environmental Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS), Civil and Environmental Engineering at University of MichiganHong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)
Portuguese, Spanish
Github Skills (2)
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Github contributions (1)
GLEON/SOS
Jun 2015 - Sep 2016
Contributions:87 commits, 97 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
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