Rob Fatland
Cloud Director at University of Washington
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolRob Fatland is a cloud and research computing leader with 11+ years enabling cloud adoption and data science across the University of Washington, and a multi-decade background in remote sensing, geophysics, and research program management. As Cloud Director and Research Computing Director he coordinates cloud strategies for projects spanning astronomy to medicine, translating complex scientific workflows into scalable, usable cloud solutions. His earlier work at Microsoft Research, Vexcel, and JPL/NASA includes building SAR processing software, glacier sensor networks, and large-scale program coordination—skills that inform pragmatic approaches to reproducible research infrastructure. Based in Seattle, he combines deep domain expertise (PhD in Geophysics) with hands-on technical leadership and a passion for STEAM outreach in his spare time.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Geophysics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Geophysics at University of Alaska FairbanksCalifornia Institute of Technology
English, French
Github Skills (39)
meta10
data-management10
aws-billing10
netcdf10
geophysics10
data-science9
cloud-computing9
atmospheric-modelling9
python9
s3-bucket9
jupyter-notebook8
lambda8
object-storage4
prototyping4
aws3
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
whaledr/whalebooks
Nov 2018 - Aug 2019
jupyter notebooks for whales
Contributions:122 commits, 4 PRs, 125 pushes in 9 months
jupyter-notebook
robfatland/serverless
Mar 2021 - Apr 2022
Contributions:1 review, 140 commits, 240 pushes in 1 year 2 months
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