Vijay Barve
Regional Support Contractor For Asia at GBIF: The Global Biodiversity Information Facility
Florida, United States
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Top SchoolVijay Barve is a biodiversity informatics specialist with 14 years of experience mobilizing and analyzing spatio-temporal biodiversity data, currently serving as Regional Support Contractor for Asia at GBIF and an Adjunct Associate Professor. He blends deep technical skills—GIS, database and server management, web systems, and data science—with hands-on community science leadership, having coordinated multiple taxon-focused cyber communities and long-running initiatives like National Moth Week. His work spans academia, museums, and global data infrastructures, including managing large-scale digitization workflows that feed GBIF, iDigBio and OBIS. Vijay’s background in computer science and a PhD in Geographic Information Science enables him to bridge research, training and operational data mobilization across continents. Less obvious: he pairs rigorous standards work (TDWG/GBIF) with grassroots outreach, turning citizen observations into interoperable, research-ready datasets.
14 years of coding experience
36 years of employment as a software developer
University of KansasSSC, SSC at MES Boys (Perugate) High SchoolMCS Computer Science, MCS Computer Science at Savitribai Phule Pune UniversityHigh School, High School at Jnana Prabodhini
English, Marathi, Hindi, Sanskrit
Github Skills (75)
data-visualizations10
r-package10
biodiversity10
r9
api9
visualizations9
visualization9
traits9
data-visualization8
nomenclature8
bookdown8
biodiversity-informatics8
taxonomy8
ecology7
toolbelt7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
vijaybarve/bdvis
Jul 2013 - Jun 2022
Biodiversity data Visualizations in R
Contributions:3 releases, 105 commits, 2 PRs in 8 years 11 months
biodiversitybiodiversity-datavisualizationsdata-visualizationdata-visualizations
vijaybarve/rinat
Apr 2016 - Nov 2020
Contributions:6 PRs, 4 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 7 months
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