Rudo Kemper
Director, Indigenous Guardianship Program at Conservation Metrics
Springfield, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRudo Kemper is a geographer-technologist who builds digital tools that strengthen Indigenous data sovereignty and on-the-ground guardianship, with over a decade of field experience across the Amazon, Caribbean, North America, East Africa, and Oceania. As Director of the Indigenous Guardianship Program at Conservation Metrics and former chief program and technology lead at organizations like Cadasta and Native Land Digital, he blends program strategy with hands-on web and mapping development to deliver open-source platforms such as Terrastories and the Earth Defenders Toolkit. He holds master’s degrees in Anthropology and International Administration and pairs academic depth with two decades of web development and archival experience. Equally at home in community mapping workshops and technical architecture, Rudo focuses on tooling that communities can host and control themselves, reflecting a practical commitment to data sovereignty.
7 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Philosophy, Bachelor’s Degree, Philosophy at New College of FloridaMaster’s Degree, International Administration, Master’s Degree, International Administration at University of MiamiMaster’s Degree, PhD Coursework, Anthropology, Master’s Degree, PhD Coursework, Anthropology at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
English, Dutch, Spanish, sranan tongo, Portuguese, Vietnamese
Github Skills (133)
language-learning10
firefox10
anki10
dictionary10
wrapper10
chrome-extension10
chrome10
skim9
cli-application9
hal9
floating9
stlink9
raspberry-pi-pico9
jlink9
microchip9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Rudo2204/rtend
Nov 2019 - Aug 2020
My rust implementation of tend, a note taking program
Contributions:6 releases, 5 PRs, 62 pushes in 8 months
note-takingrustrustlangrust-languagerust-lang
Rudo2204/rpl
Jun 2021 - May 2023
Rudo's pack leecher.
Contributions:4 PRs, 56 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 11 months
minecraftrudopackleecher
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