Niklas Griessbaum
Earth Intelligence Scientist at Leidos
Bishop, California, United States
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Top SchoolNiklas Griessbaum is an Earth Intelligence Scientist and scientific programmer with nine years of experience bridging mechanical engineering, environmental science, and geospatial data infrastructure. Trained as a mechanical engineer (KIT) and Ph.D. graduate in Environmental Informatics (UCSB), he has built production-ready cyberinfrastructure for geospatial data—contributing tools like the OPeNDAP Citation Creator and Python/STARE interfaces—while improving remote-sensing methods for fractional snow cover. He teaches data science and GIS, bringing classroom-tested pedagogy from UC Berkeley’s Data 8 into environmental curricula. Currently at Leidos and Bayesics, he helps move spatial analysis to the cloud and integrate advanced spatiotemporal encoding into operational workflows. Colleagues describe him as equally at home optimizing district energy systems as writing pandas-based interfaces, a blend that reflects his uncommon combination of field-facing energy expertise and deep data-engineering craft.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Dipl.Ing., Mechanical Engineering, Dipl.Ing., Mechanical Engineering at Karlsruhe Institute of TechnologyMaster of Science - MS, Mechanical Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Mechanical Engineering at Technical University SofiaDoctor of Philosophy - Ph.D., Environmental Informatics, Doctor of Philosophy - Ph.D., Environmental Informatics at Bren School of Environmental Science & Management - University of California, Santa Barbara
English, German, Bulgarian, French, Portuguese
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Github Skills (28)
python-interface10
encoding10
opendap10
geospatial9
indexing9
gis9
geo9
science9
data-access9
python8
polars7
latitude-longitude6
computational-geometry6
rasterio6
convex-hull6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
NiklasPhabian/scidb_loader
Jul 2019 - Dec 2023
yet another scidb loader
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 5 months
yet-anotherloader
SpatioTemporal/STAREPandas
Jul 2020 - Dec 2022
STAREpandas adds SpatioTemporal Adaptive Resolution Encoding (STARE) support to pandas DataFrames. https://starepandas.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Contributions:2 releases, 5 reviews, 266 commits in 2 years 5 months
polarsgeospatialpythondataframesstare
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