Nicholas Fabina
Engineering Manager at Overstory
Portland, Maine, United States
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Top SchoolNicholas Fabina is an engineering manager and data scientist with a decade of experience turning remote sensing, statistics, and ML into operational products that protect ecosystems and inform policy. He has led technical teams and built core infrastructure at multiple early-stage ventures and research institutions, shipping global-scale mapping products for coral reefs, forests, and agricultural systems. Skilled at moving projects from prototype datasets to funded roadmaps, he has secured seven-figure funding and driven acquisitions by translating scientific models into production pipelines. His background as a quantitative ecologist (PhD) and first technical hire roles give him a rare blend of domain expertise and hands-on engineering leadership. Based in Portland, Maine, he focuses on sustainability and climate impact, while also mentoring teams to adopt reproducible data practices and rapid iteration. Colleagues describe him as pragmatic, mission-driven, and unusually effective at bridging academic rigor with startup velocity.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Quantitative Ecology, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Quantitative Ecology at University of California, DavisBachelor of Science (BS) Mathematics and Economics, Bachelor of Science (BS) Mathematics and Economics at University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Github Skills (43)
geostatistics10
geopandas10
keras10
hyperparameter-tuning10
image-processing9
reinforcement-learning9
pytorch9
python9
geospatial9
machine-learning9
nltk9
segmentation9
image-segmentation9
data-versioning9
api9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
nsfabina/gcrmn-benthic-classification
Jun 2019 - Apr 2020
Contributions:644 commits, 92 pushes in 9 months
nsfabina/tweetbankforbernie
Mar 2016 - Mar 2016
Contributions:53 commits, 2 pushes in 7 days
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