Robb Lankston
Software Engineer at Desert Research Institute
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRobb Lankston is a software engineer with 12 years of experience building end-to-end data science and GIS solutions that translate academic research into scalable cloud software for environmental science. He blends machine learning productionization, high-performance GIS modeling, and cloud architecture (AWS/GCP) to turn massive spatial datasets into actionable climate and land-management insights. His background includes long-standing collaborations with USFS and academic institutions, authoring bespoke simulation libraries and ArcMap add-ins and shipping tools used by federal research groups. Comfortable across Python, C#, and TypeScript, he’s equally at home writing fast raster-processing algorithms from scratch or designing infrastructure for compute-heavy scientific models. Based in Seattle, he combines a practical systems mindset with domain depth in forestry and fire modeling, driven by the belief that better data tools enable better climate policy.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Combined Computer Science and Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Combined Computer Science and Mathematics at University of Montana
German
Github Skills (7)
fiddle8
magicavoxel8
baduk7
simulation6
zen6
simulator5
soil2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
rlank/rlank
Dec 2021 - Jun 2026
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 6 months
rlank/RVS
Jan 2014 - Mar 2020
Rangeland Vegetation Simulator
Contributions:55 commits, 18 PRs, 20 pushes in 6 years 3 months
magicavoxelgardensimulationfiddlesimulator
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