James Munroe
Senior Product Manager at 2i2c
Huntsville, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Munroe is a Senior Product Manager and multidisciplinary data engineer with 11 years of experience at the intersection of big data, oceanography, and climate science. Trained as a physicist (PhD, University of Alberta) with a B.Math in Applied Mathematics, he blends rigorous academic research and hands-on software development to translate complex environmental data into practical products. He contributes to open-source scientific tooling—notably backend improvements to the xarray library that enhance multi-backend data access and dask dataframe conversions—demonstrating deep familiarity with scientific data formats like NetCDF. Based in Huntsville, Ontario, he consults through Elemental Earth Data Ltd., bridging research, engineering, and product strategy for data-driven climate solutions. Colleagues value his ability to move between code, models, and stakeholder-facing product decisions, often surfacing non-obvious data infrastructure improvements that scale analytical workflows.
11 years of coding experience
PhD, Physics, PhD, Physics at University of AlbertaB.Math., Applied Mathematics, B.Math., Applied Mathematics at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (9)
xray10
netcdf10
dask10
python10
numpy10
xa10
pandas9
testing8
pytest8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
pydata/xarray
Apr 2017 - Oct 2017
N-D labeled arrays and datasets in Python
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 31 commits, 1 PR in 6 months
Contributions summary:James primarily contributed to the xarray library, focusing on back-end functionalities related to data access and storage. Their work involved modifying existing test code, specifically addressing issues in the testing of different backends, like NetCDF4 and Scipy. The commits included improvements to test cases and support for diverse file formats. The user's commits also included implementation of new features and fixes to conversion to dask dataframes.
pythonnetcdfnumpydaskarrays
2i2c-org/community-showcase
Nov 2022 - May 2024
Contributions:6 reviews, 20 PRs, 43 pushes in 1 year 5 months
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