Ryan Scharf
Catastrophe Modeler
Tampa, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan Scharf is a catastrophe modeler with 10 years of experience blending advanced R-based analytics, reproducible tooling, and domain expertise to quantify and mitigate insurance risk. He has led catastrophe modeling teams and platform launches, built company-wide R packages and APIs, and automated event and model workflows for underwriting, reinsurance, and live-event response. Ryan excels at integrating novel data sources (including wildfire and storm feeds), translating model outputs into actionable underwriting guidelines, and building cross-functional relationships to operationalize analytics. Based in Tampa, he pairs a pragmatic engineering mindset with a researcher’s curiosity—on weekends you’ll find him hiking, throwing disc golf, or arguing why zip codes are a poor proxy for spatial analysis.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Information Science Concentration in Data Science & Analytics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Information Science Concentration in Data Science & Analytics at University of South Florida
English
Github Skills (22)
r-package9
spatial8
r7
noaa7
geospatial-visualization6
noaa-data6
leaflet6
ocean5
maps5
carbon-emissions4
geospatial4
data-visualization3
census3
deck-gl3
placement2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ryanscharf/Scratchoff
Jun 2019 - Mar 2025
Contributions:37 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 10 months
ryanscharf/USF-Zika-Research
Sep 2016 - Feb 2018
Contributions:60 commits, 48 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
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