Tom Auer
Science Product Manager at Cornell Lab of Ornithology
City of Ithaca, New York, United States
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Top SchoolTom Auer is a Science Product Manager with 13 years of experience turning ecological research into production-scale data products, currently leading teams at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology to deliver the eBird Status and Trends suite. He blends ornithology, GIS, and machine learning to operationalize citizen science and remote sensing data into actionable estimates of avian abundance and trends used in conservation and policy. Tom has progressed from web map developer to lead geospatial data scientist and now product leadership, giving him deep domain expertise across the full lifecycle of geospatial ML workflows. Based in Ithaca, he’s focused on scaling multimodal ML systems and improving project and product leadership to get rigorous science into real-world decision making. An understated strength is his ability to translate academic findings into practical, production-ready pipelines that serve managers and policymakers.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Hancock High SchoolMaster of Science - MS, Geography, Master of Science - MS, Geography at Penn State UniversityBachelor of Science - BS, Biology, General, Bachelor of Science - BS, Biology, General at University of Minnesota Duluth
Github Skills (36)
r-package9
distributions9
datasets9
sports-data9
biodiversity9
data-retrieval9
spatial8
effort8
aws8
proj8
amazon8
r7
amazon-web-services7
dbi7
geos7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
tomauer/test-map
Jun 2020 - Apr 2021
Testing a quick workflow for publishing web maps
Contributions:3 PRs, 8 pushes, 2 branches in 9 months
testingpublishingweb-mapsworkflow
tomauer/trends-test
Jun 2020 - Apr 2021
Contributions:3 PRs, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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