Falk Schuetzenmeister
Engineering Lead at The Nature Conservancy
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolFalk Schuetzenmeister is an Engineering Lead at The Nature Conservancy California with 12 years of experience building data-driven conservation technology, from geospatial web apps and satellite-to-cloud pipelines to IoT telemetry and LoRaWAN sensor networks. He pairs a PhD in Sociology/Science Studies with deep hands-on engineering skills—databases, data streaming, machine learning, remote sensing, and firmware prototyping—to translate scientific needs into reliable production systems. His work spans water management, ocean protection, and island biosecurity, often integrating sensors, wildlife cameras, and GIS into operational workflows tied to Salesforce and ArcGIS Online. Known for bridging academic rigor and pragmatic engineering, he has a track record of automating large-scale raster and species-distribution modeling and of advocating APIs as the backbone for scientific data sharing. Based in San Francisco, Falk blends research experience with product-focused delivery to help scientists and land managers make actionable decisions from complex environmental data.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
MA, Sociology, MA, Sociology at Technische Universität Dresden
German, English, Russian, Latin
Stackoverflow
1,547reputation
101kreached
33answers
19questions
Github Skills (106)
ansible-role10
wsdl10
deriving10
django9
soap-client9
soap9
ansible8
django-rest8
rest-framework8
python8
arduino-library8
postgresql8
pip6
etl6
geodata6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
tnc-ca-geo/rivers
Jul 2017 - Mar 2019
Contributions:2 PRs, 92 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
apiriversservingunimpaireddata-flow
tnc-ca-geo/fishnet-extract
Oct 2016 - Jan 2020
Tool to extract image from videos
Contributions:1 release, 32 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 3 months
ffmpegvideosvideo
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