Rick Russotto
Senior Data Scientist
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRick Russotto is a Senior Data Scientist and climate scientist with a decade of experience translating atmospheric research into production-ready Python tools and risk products. He has led development of global machine-learning indices and a tropical cyclone return-period model at Gro Intelligence, and now builds weather-risk products for wildfires and flash floods at DTN. His work bridges high-end climate modeling (characterizing hurricanes in NASA GISS Model E3) and pragmatic engineering—rewriting legacy Matlab/Fortran analyses into unit-tested, gridded Python pipelines for interoperable datasets. Rick combines strong academic credentials (PhD/MS, UW; summa cum laude BS, Yale) with hands-on catastrophe modeling and ensemble climate projection work, and he has a habit of turning complex scientific methods into scalable, operational code.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
M.S., Ph.D., Atmospheric Sciences, 3.87/4.00, M.S., Ph.D., Atmospheric Sciences, 3.87/4.00 at University of WashingtonB.S., Summa Cum Laude, Geology and Geophysics, 3.96/4.00, B.S., Summa Cum Laude, Geology and Geophysics, 3.96/4.00 at Yale UniversityInternational Baccalaureate Diploma, International Baccalaureate Diploma at Deerfield Beach High School
Github Skills (10)
netcdf10
dask10
python9
pandas9
numpy8
jupyterlab6
jupyter6
approximate2
partial2
radiation1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
rdrussotto/PythonGillAtmosphere
Oct 2018 - Mar 2019
Contributions:16 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
rdrussotto/TRACMIP_pa_notebooks
Dec 2019 - Apr 2021
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
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