Steven Malevich
Senior Research Developer at Climate Impact Lab
Oakland, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSteven Malevich is a Senior Research Developer with 13 years of experience blending software development, information science, and earth-system research to support climate and drought decision-making. Based in Oakland, he pairs a PhD in Geosciences and deep dendrochronology expertise with hands-on engineering work at Climate Impact Lab and Rhodium Group, translating complex paleo and climate data into actionable tools. He has a strong track record in multiproxy data assimilation, forest-fire and drought research, and building communicative visualizations for water managers. An active contributor to open-source documentation—improving clarity in projects like xarray—he emphasizes reproducibility and user-centered science software. Colleagues rely on him for bridging academic rigor with practical, stakeholder-facing solutions that inform policy and resource management.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
The University of ArizonaUniversity of Minnesota Twin Cities
Github Skills (6)
xray10
documentation10
xa10
python9
git7
numpy6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
pydata/xarray
Oct 2016 - May 2022
N-D labeled arrays and datasets in Python
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:5 commits, 5 PRs, 5 comments in 5 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Steven primarily focused on improving documentation within the xarray repository. Their contributions include correcting formatting issues, clarifying documentation around installation with conda-forge, fixing a broken URL, and improving docstrings. These changes enhance the readability and accuracy of the project's documentation, improving user understanding and experience.
pythonnetcdfnumpydaskarrays
brews/dodola
Nov 2020 - Mar 2025
Prototype GCM bias-correction and downscaling
Contributions:1 release, 233 pushes, 105 branches in 4 years 4 months
prototypebiascorrectionbias-correctiongcm
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