Virgil Zetterlind
Director at ProtectedSeas
Pensacola, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolVirgil Zetterlind is a technology-driven conservation leader with 11+ years building and directing multidisciplinary teams that blend law, geography, and software to protect ocean, coastal, and inland ecosystems. As Director of ProtectedSeas and co-founder/CTO of Conserve.IO, he has delivered mobile, cloud, and geospatial solutions—like NOAA Whale Alert and other citizen-science apps—that turn public sightings into actionable science. His background as a software systems engineer and earlier engineering roles (including video exploitation and remote sensing in the USAF) give him deep technical fluency across Python, GIS stacks, sensors, and embedded systems. Based in Pensacola, he combines academic training in electrical engineering with entrepreneurial experience founding EarthNC and shaping low-cost, high-impact open-source conservation tools. An understated strength is his ability to translate complex policy and legal requirements into practical technical workflows that scale community engagement and monitoring.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Missouri University of Science and TechnologyMS, Electrical Engineering, MS, Electrical Engineering at Air Force Institute of TechnologyBryan High School
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Github Skills (14)
ocean9
metadata8
rdf8
interoperability8
knowledge-graph7
plugin6
lightbox6
jquery-plugin6
jquery6
architecture6
galery6
system-information5
pixelfed4
federation3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
EarthNC/regionsJSON
May 2015 - Apr 2025
Contributions:1342 pushes in 10 years
vzett/v3simple-spatial
May 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 day
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