Noam Ross - Co-Founder at rOpenSci

Noam Ross

Co-Founder at rOpenSci

New York, New York, United States

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Noam Ross is a computational disease ecologist and open-science leader with 15 years of experience applying mathematical and statistical tools to wildlife and plant disease dynamics, spillover risk, and optimal disease management that balances conservation and public health. As Executive Director and long-time contributor at rOpenSci and now Co-Founder of Grant Witness, he combines hands-on software engineering (including DevOps work automating versioned R Docker builds) with programmatic leadership to make scientific tools more robust, reproducible, and accessible. His work spans ecological forecasting, One Health consulting, and building inclusive research communities that prioritize those historically left out of science. Trained as a PhD ecologist from UC Davis, he pairs deep domain expertise with practical engineering to move models and methods from research into operational use.

15 years of coding experience

9 years of employment as a software developer

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Ecology, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Ecology at University of California, Davis

BS, Environmental Science, BS, Environmental Science at Brown University

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Github Skills (21)

docker10

r10

bash10

dockers10

automation10

dockerfile10

automations10

cicd9

ggplot9

border9

json8

yaml7

profiler6

pandoc6

smoothing6

Programming languages (24)

JavaC++CSSRustCObjective-C++TeXMakefile

Github contributions (5)

rocker-org/rocker-versioned2

Dec 2019 - Dec 2021

Run current & prior versions of R using docker. rocker/r-ver, rocker/rstudio, rocker/shiny, rocker/tidyverse, and so on.

Role in this project:

DevOps Engineer

Contributions:4 reviews, 61 commits, 12 PRs in 2 years

Contributions summary:Noam focused on automating and improving the build process for Docker images related to running R versions. They implemented scripts to generate Dockerfiles automatically, streamlined the image build process, and introduced features such as automatically determining image build order. The commits also included enhancements to the installation of R-related packages and the integration of tools like Shiny server and Pandoc.

dockerrstudiotidyverser

emmamendelsohn/relic

Nov 2023 - Sep 2025

Tools for working with version-controlled data science workflows

Contributions:5 PRs, 28 pushes, 10 branches in 1 year 10 months

data-science

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