Sharif Islam
Senior Data Architect
Leiden, South Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolSharif Islam is a Senior Data Architect based in Leiden with 13 years of hands-on experience designing scalable data and system architectures for large research infrastructures and biodiversity projects. He leads DiSSCo and ARISE efforts, translating user needs into FAIR, sustainable architectures for Digital Extended Specimens, biodiversity genomics and digital twin initiatives across European consortia. His background operating petabyte-scale HPC and archival systems (including work on Blue Waters and large Lustre/tape environments) informs pragmatic designs that bridge research workflows from compute to long-term preservation. Sharif pairs deep systems and automation skills with social-science training (PhD-level study), enabling him to balance technical rigor with stakeholder-driven requirements and policy-minded data stewardship. He is active in ecosystem-wide initiatives on FAIR Digital Objects and privacy-aware FAIR practices, bringing both operational discipline and cross-disciplinary collaboration to complex data challenges.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Sociology, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Sociology at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Bengali, Greek, Arabic, Spanish, Dutch, English
Github Skills (76)
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
naturalis/openstack-docs
Mar 2014 - Jul 2016
Contributions:10 commits, 1 push, 1 issue in 2 years 4 months
MakeExpose/naturalis-docs
Jan 2018 - Jul 2019
Contributions:1 release, 183 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 5 months
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