Douglas Denu
Software Team Lead at Natural Capital Alliance
South Burlington, Vermont, United States
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Top SchoolDouglas Denu is a software team lead with 11 years of engineering experience and a master's in computer science from the University of Vermont, where he focused on machine learning, deep learning, and statistical modeling. He leads NatCap’s open-source software efforts for ecosystem service modeling, blending hands-on Python and GIS development with team leadership and user-focused support. His background spans prototyping distributed processing (Hadoop), front-end work on large-image web apps, and developing spatial models used for conservation and energy valuation. Douglas enjoys collaborating with researchers and translating scientific problems into robust, production-ready tools that enable policy and conservation decisions. He brings a practical mix of academic rigor and field-oriented product delivery, having worked globally on trainings and applied projects for real-world environmental outcomes.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at University of VermontBachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at St. Lawrence UniversityJames Cook University
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Github Skills (56)
qt10
gui-programming10
geospatial10
pysimplegui10
gis10
wxpython10
qt-gui10
tkinter10
scenarios9
user-interface9
viewer9
python9
gui-framework9
miniconda8
strftime8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
natcap/invest-schistosomiasis
May 2023 - Feb 2026
An Schistosomiasis plugin for the InVEST Workbench. This repo is maintained by the NatCap software team.
Contributions:8 reviews, 18 PRs, 43 pushes in 2 years 9 months
natcap/global-web-viewer
Apr 2021 - Jan 2022
A web viewer prototype for visualizing and analyzing global data.
Contributions:24 reviews, 194 commits, 56 PRs in 8 months
analyzingjavascriptprototypeviewervisualizing
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