Richard Sharp
Remote Sensing And Ecoinformatics Lead
Oakland, California, United States
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Top SchoolRichard Sharp is a remote sensing and ecoinformatics leader with 15 years of experience translating environmental science into robust software and operational pipelines, currently heading remote sensing efforts for WWF Global Science. He combines deep academic training (Ph.D. in Computer Science) with hands-on engineering—designing high-performance biophysical simulations, CMIP6 data pipelines, and scalable scientific computing stacks. His career spans founding and technical leadership at Spring, architecting software at the Natural Capital Project, and a decade of higher-education teaching, giving him rare fluency across research, production engineering, and pedagogy. Based in Oakland, he brings practical conservation impact through evidence-driven modeling while mentoring cross-disciplinary teams. An advocate for non-violent action and a critic of cryptocurrency, he blends principled public engagement with technical rigor.
15 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
The University of UtahPh.D., Computer Science, Ph.D., Computer Science at The Ohio State University
Stackoverflow
12,323reputation
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33answers
95questions
computer-science
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Github Skills (57)
prediction-model10
raster10
ttk10
geospatial10
gis10
pygobject10
wps9
python9
security9
timeout9
python-multithreading9
h39
passwords9
rasterio9
computer-science9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
natcap/pygeoprocessing
Jan 2015 - Jul 2021
Contributions:2211 commits in 6 years 6 months
richpsharp/rios-deprecated
Jul 2015 - Jun 2020
Contributions:199 commits, 4 pushes, 19 branches in 5 years
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