Rob Fatland
Cloud Director at University of Washington
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRob Fatland is a cloud computing leader at the University of Washington, directing efforts to enable data science research through scalable, cloud-based infrastructure. His career spans leadership and hands-on engineering roles at Microsoft Research, Vexcel Corporation, and JPL/NASA, bringing a rare blend of research insight and software delivery. He holds a Ph.D. in Geophysics from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and a B.S. in Physics from Caltech, grounding his work in rigorous scientific training. Since 2015 he has served as Cloud Director and Research Computing Director at UW, coordinating cloud adoption, data-intensive workflows, and research evangelism in Seattle. In his spare time he contributes as a freelance STEAM educator, reflecting his commitment to broadening access to scientific and technical skills.
10 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Geophysics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Geophysics at University of Alaska FairbanksCalifornia Institute of Technology
English, French
Github Skills (72)
accumulator10
pointers10
meta10
geophysics10
aws-billing9
science9
cloud-computing9
python9
data-management9
netcdf9
machine-learning9
aws9
atmospheric-modelling9
amazon9
s3-bucket9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
whaledr/whalebooks
Nov 2018 - Aug 2019
jupyter notebooks for whales
Contributions:122 commits, 4 PRs, 125 pushes in 9 months
pythonjupyter-notebooknotebooknotebooksjupyter
robfatland/serverless
Mar 2021 - Apr 2022
Contributions:1 review, 140 commits, 240 pushes in 1 year 2 months
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