Scott Henderson
EScience Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Washington
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolScott Henderson is an eScience Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Washington with 12 years of experience bridging geophysics research and scientific software development. He holds a Ph.D. in Geosciences from Cornell and began his career at USGS before moving through industry research at Chevron and academia in Colombia. A geophysicist and Python enthusiast, Scott applies reproducible computing and data-intensive methods to earth science problems, often translating complex models into accessible code and tools. His background spans field‑based physical science to computational research, giving him a pragmatic eye for both measurement and modeling challenges. Based in Seattle, he maintains an online portfolio (scottyhq.github.io) that highlights his cross-disciplinary projects and open-source work. Colleagues value his ability to synthesize domain expertise with practical software engineering to accelerate scientific discovery.
12 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Physics, Bachelor's Degree, Physics at Lewis and Clark CollegeDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Geological and Earth Sciences/Geosciences, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Geological and Earth Sciences/Geosciences at Cornell University
English, Spanish
Github Skills (200)
gdal10
datasets10
package-manager-tool10
cesiumjs10
geography10
satellite10
mercator10
servicenow10
data-science10
jupyterlab-extension10
deployment-automation10
amazon10
mediawiki-extension10
jupyterhub10
nasa-api10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
scottyhq/pangeo-cloud-federation
Feb 2019 - Feb 2022
Deployment automation for dev.pangeo.io
Contributions:2 PRs, 168 pushes, 149 branches in 2 years 11 months
devdeploymentkubernetesautomationpangeo
scottyhq/sentinel1-rtc-stac
Mar 2021 - Jun 2021
Contributions:22 commits, 13 pushes, 2 branches in 2 months
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