Kim Fisher
MERMAID Lead Software Engineer at Wildlife Conservation Society
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolKim Fisher is a lead software engineer and geospatial analyst with over a decade of conservation-focused engineering experience, currently heading MERMAID development at the Wildlife Conservation Society. She designs spatial analyses, data visualizations, and full-stack applications—favoring open data and open code—using a toolset centered on Python, Django, PostgreSQL/PostGIS, QGIS/GDAL, and modern web frameworks. A pragmatic technical manager, she coordinates multidisciplinary teams of developers, designers, and scientists to deliver production-grade systems on Docker and AWS. Co-founder of Square Water and a contributor to multiple publications, she combines entrepreneurial breadth with deep hands-on skills in spatial data pipelines and database-driven applications. Trained in cultural anthropology, she brings a human-centered perspective to technically complex conservation problems.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Cultural Anthropology, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Cultural Anthropology at Reed College
Nepali, Russian
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Github Skills (47)
mermaid10
read-write10
api10
sum8
weighted8
r-package8
energy-data7
probability7
biodiversity7
endpoints7
energy7
ocean7
photovoltaic6
earth-engine6
earth6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
data-mermaid/mermaid-ingest-docs
Feb 2020 - Aug 2022
MERMAID ingestion API Insomnia collection and workflow documentation
Contributions:2 reviews, 2 PRs, 5 pushes in 2 years 6 months
workflowapimermaidingestion-apiinsomnia
SpeciesConservationLandscapes/task_hii_landuse
Dec 2019 - Feb 2022
Earth Engine task for calculating landuse driver
Contributions:2 reviews, 5 PRs, 9 pushes in 2 years 2 months
earthearth-enginelanduse
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