Karl Schleicher
Retired
Stafford, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKarl Schleicher is a retired senior researcher with 15+ years of experience bridging geophysics, petroleum industry R&D, and technology commercialization. His career spans leadership and research roles at institutions including the Bureau of Economic Geology, PGS, and Western Geophysical, where he drove advanced seismic data processing and applied novel computational techniques. Trained in operations research (M.S.) and mathematics (B.S.), he brings deep technical fluency in Python, C, Fortran and data migration alongside hands-on geophysical modeling. Karl also pursues automation, IoT and machine learning projects—often combining field-focused instrumentation with software to accelerate data-driven insights. Based in Stafford, TX, he’s known for turning complex seismic problems into practical, transferable solutions and for an enduring interest in practical device-level automation like “automate bolas.”
15 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
M.S., Operations Research, M.S., Operations Research at The University of Texas at DallasB.S., Mathematics, B.S., Mathematics at University of Houston
Github Skills (18)
reproducible-science9
atmospheric-modelling9
data-management9
geophysics9
multiphysics8
gtk8
matplotlib8
qt8
python7
data-visualization6
visualization6
data-science6
geology5
agent-based-modeling5
julia4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
kschleicher/seg_ww_2018
May 2018 - Aug 2018
Repository for the 2018 working workshop on Python and Julia for Geophysics
Contributions:13 commits, 1 PR, 9 pushes in 3 months
pythongeologygeophysicsworkshopagent-based-modeling
PAI-SEG/SEG_3D_SPWW_2015
Aug 2015 - Aug 2016
Contributions:13 commits, 10 pushes in 11 months
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