Trond Kristiansen
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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SeniorTrond 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.
13 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
2,431reputation
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51answers
55questions
matplotlib
top-5%
python
top-5%
Github Skills (94)
toolbox10
energy10
ruby10
automation10
rest-api10
backend10
relay10
photovoltaic10
forcing10
graphql-api10
mbaas10
documented10
parse-platform10
solar-energy10
parse-server10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
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
trondkr/ERA5-ROMS
Jul 2020 - Jul 2022
Download, and create ERA5 data forcing for ROMS
Contributions:2 releases, 86 commits, 2 PRs in 2 years
era5ecmwf-apidownloadromsforcing
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