Trond Kristiansen
Co-Founder And CTO at Farallon Institute
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolTrond Kristiansen is a marine-focused CTO and scientist with 12+ years bridging high-performance computational modelling and applied ecosystem research across the North Atlantic and Arctic. As Co-Founder & CTO of Actea and Principal Scientist at Farallon, he designs and implements coupled ROMS, individual-based, and 4DVAR assimilation systems to downscale Earth System Models and reveal climate-driven changes in coastal food webs. His career blends academic rigor (PhD-level oceanography/biology) with operational projects for institutes like IMR and NOAA, where he led multinational reanalyses and Arctic downscaling efforts. Trond’s work uniquely pairs mechanistic larval fish models with large-scale climate synthesis, and he maintains production-ready toolboxes (e.g., a ROMS toolbox on GitHub) optimized in Python and Fortran for HPC environments. Based in San Francisco, he translates complex physical-biological dynamics into actionable insights for management and decision-making.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc., Oceanography, M.Sc., Oceanography at University of OsloPhD, Biology, PhD, Biology at University of Bergen (UiB)PhD, Biology, Oceanography, PhD, Biology, Oceanography at The University of North Carolina at Chapel HillB.Sc., Oceanography, B.Sc., Oceanography at UNIS
Norwegian, English
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Github Skills (142)
expressjs10
toolbox10
insar10
energy10
ruby10
automation10
hydrology10
geodesy10
earth-science10
rest-api10
oceanography10
backend10
agent-based-simulation10
relay10
photovoltaic10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
trondkr/model2roms
Jul 2013 - Jan 2022
Model2roms is a Python toolbox for creating forcing files required to run Regional Ocean Modeling System (ROMS)
Contributions:6 releases, 195 commits, 3 PRs in 8 years 7 months
pythonpython-toolboxatmosphereromshydrology
trondkr/okokyst_toolbox
Jan 2020 - Feb 2022
Toolbox for processing, plotting, and calculating stats of SAIV CTD cast data from stations
Contributions:5 reviews, 3 PRs, 38 pushes in 2 years 1 month
pythonctdtoolboxstatsstations
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