Douglas Fils
Member Research Data Services Data Initiatives Group
Slater, Iowa, United States
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Top SchoolDouglas Fils is a data management and research computing professional with 11+ years of experience designing and implementing data architectures for scientific organizations. Currently a member of the Research Data Services/Data Initiatives Group at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, he has led data management strategy and technical guidance for oceanographic and earth science communities at the Consortium for Ocean Leadership. His background blends hands-on systems administration, long-term program stewardship, and international capacity building from work with IITAP and university research groups. Douglas is comfortable across the stack—identifying technologies, shaping policies, and engaging stakeholders to make data more discoverable and reusable. Based in Slater, Iowa, he maintains an active GitHub presence as the hub for his practical tools and reproducible workflows. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic solutions that connect scientific needs to sustainable infrastructure.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Physics, BS, Physics at Iowa State University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
semantic-web10
metadata10
knowledge-graph10
schema-org10
harvest10
ocean10
sphere10
interoperability10
architecture10
evolve10
pixelfed10
system-information10
rdf10
structured-data10
datasets9
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
gleanerio/tangram
Mar 2020 - Jul 2022
A simple service wrapper for pySHACL
Contributions:3 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
python
fils/CDFRegistryWG
Mar 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:94 commits, 1 PR, 84 pushes in 8 months
hostedfacilityearthcubecdfhtml5
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