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 (31)
python10
raster10
geospatial10
gis10
security9
timeout9
python-multithreading9
passwords9
computer-science9
data-structures9
binary-tree6
sql-server6
sql6
linux6
math6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
richpsharp/forest_carbon_edge_effects
Jun 2014 - Feb 2015
Contributions:2 releases, 75 commits, 2 pushes in 8 months
WWFGlobalScience/wwf-seaweed-public-sentiment
Aug 2024 - Jun 2026
Public sentiment and subject mapping on seaweed aquaculture farming
Contributions:4 PRs, 15 pushes, 12 branches in 1 year 9 months
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