Olivier Leroy
Data Analyst
Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolOlivier Leroy is a data analyst and spatial scientist with a Ph.D. and eight years of experience turning complex geographic and environmental data into actionable insights for research, government and industry. He blends deep expertise in spatial analytics, geocoding and PostGIS-backed pipelines with production-level data engineering skills (R, PostgreSQL/PostGIS, AWS) to deliver web apps, reports and reproducible data products. His background spans epidemiology, cultural heritage, biodiversity and forestry—where he has boosted location precision by over a million meters and standardized tree/vegetation descriptors for field-to-database workflows. Equally comfortable as a self-sufficient researcher or a collaborator on cross-functional teams, he has led projects from funding proposals to operational dashboards and taught GIS and R to academics and practitioners. Based in Greensboro, NC, he brings a rare mix of academic rigor and hands-on pipeline-building, and he still gets excited about plotless sampling and tree data in his spare time.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Forest Ecology Biology, Master of Science - MS Forest Ecology Biology at Université Henri Poincaré, Nancy 1Bachelor of science Biology; Plant Science, Bachelor of science Biology; Plant Science at Université de Rennes IPh.D Geography and Environmental Studies, Ph.D Geography and Environmental Studies at Université Paris CitéCertifcate Forestry, Certifcate Forestry at INRAEMaster Environmental studies, Master Environmental studies at Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle — Teaching/TrainingCertificate Statistics, Certificate Statistics at Mines Paris - PSL
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Github Skills (79)
dbi10
mapping-tools10
mappings10
geography10
spatial10
french10
r-package10
geos10
proj10
geo10
r9
maps9
gdal9
h39
geospatial9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
ruralinnovation/conf_URISA_2023
Jun 2023 - Jan 2025
URISA 2023 CORI/RISI
Contributions:1 PR, 81 pushes, 8 branches in 1 year 7 months
defuneste/utile_comme_du_pq
Apr 2020 - Dec 2022
Contributions:37 commits, 30 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 7 months
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