Summary
Douglas Schuster is an experienced computational data leader with over two decades of hands-on technical work and nine years in senior engineering and management roles at NSF NCAR, now serving as Interim Director of CISL. He specializes in integrating data, high-performance compute, AI, and open science to enable large-scale Earth system research, overseeing a 4 PB archive and international data collaborations. Douglas has built and maintained production data pipelines, RESTful APIs, THREDDS/GRIB/NetCDF tooling, and scalable ingest systems that support near-real-time meteorological and reanalysis workflows. His background blends applied atmospheric science (M.S., Colorado State) with practical software and database engineering, including contributions as a TIGGE archive technical lead and consultant to ECMWF. He also authors data-focused Python projects on GitHub that reflect his applied data science interests, such as a small-cap predictor and project estimator. Colocated in Boulder, he brings a rare mix of domain science, operational systems expertise, and strategic leadership across national and international data services.
9 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Masters, Atmospheric Science, Masters, Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University
Bachelor of Science, Civil Engineering, Bachelor of Science, Civil Engineering at University of Minnesota