Nick Clarke
Climate-focused technologist with a background in software and data engineering, machine learning, and technical product management. Currently leading the energy practice at a data-engineering consultancy, building production-grade data pipelines, analytics, and optimization tools for clean energy clients.
Skills & Interests
Tools
Python, Polars/Pandas/Numpy, CVXPY, SKLearn, SQL, DBT, Docker, GraphQL, AWS, GCP, Snowflake
Interests
IoT, optimization & controls, power systems and energy analysis, energy markets, spatial analysis (GIS), transit, distributed energy resources (DER), renewables, EV integration, demand response, air quality, China, international development
Employment History
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DataCRT Oakland, CA: Feb 2025 - Present
- Principal Engineer: Lead DataCRT’s Energy practice, helping clean energy sector clients develop production-grade data pipelines, data warehousing, and analytics tooling. Lead development of proprietary techno-economic analysis optimization framework for energy systems. Built with CVXPY, this framework is used by our clients to inform go-to-market strategies, battery site selection, product development roadmaps, and sensitivity analysis, etc.
- WeaveGrid San Francisco, CA: Oct 2021 - Dec 2024
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Data & Analytics Engineer: Development of Weavegrid’s internal data pipeline and analytics tooling, including the development of the data warehouse, ETL pipeline, and data visualization tools. Building out analytics and machine-learning forecasting for our go-to-market tools. Used to evaluate performance of our utility clients’ electric vehicle charging programs for tens of thousands of connected EV and EVSE chargers, impacting hundreds of GWh of electricity daily.
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Software Engineer: Founding member of a greenfield team to develop the Weavegrid for Utilities platform, a cloud-based software platform for WeaveGrid’s utility clients to manage and optimize residential and commercial electric vehicle fleet charging programs. This includes developing the data pipeline, REST/GraphQL API, and React front-end interfaces for the platform, as well as automated reporting for utility clients.
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PingThings Remote: Oct 2020 - Oct 2021
- Product Manager: Lead Product Management and strategy for PredictiveGrid timeseries platform, a cloud-based timeseries database platform for managing and analyzing high-frequency (>1-10GHz) sensor data for utilities and grid operators. Used by several of the top 30 utilities in the US. This includes developing the product roadmap, managing the development team, and working closely with the executive team to develop and execute the company’s go-to-market strategy.
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Weave Grid San Francisco, CA: June 2019 - Aug 2019
- Product & Strategy Graduate Intern: Assist CEO and CTO to refine and build MVP product for electric vehicle fleet charging optimization. Write proposals for utility pilot projects, institutional grants, and accelerators.
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QLEAR.io Shanghai, China: Aug 2016 - June 2018
- Head of Product: Product Manager for the QLEAR SaaS IoT Platform for monitoring and optimizing indoor air quality and energy usage in commercial/retail buildings across dozens of countries and four continents with thousands of connected IoT devices. Responsible for the product roadmap / strategy, overseeing software development teams and development, as well as representing QLEAR in media and industry events.
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Henry Luce Foundation Kunming, China: June 2015 - August 2016
- Henry Luce Scholar / Project Manager: Project Manager for anaerobic digestion pilot using local food waste to produce bio-methane and organic fertilizer for local public transportation and agriculture. Developed in partnership with Yunnan Normal University.
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Lucid Oakland, CA: January 2014 - May 2015
- Technical Operations Administrator: Provide tooling and infrastructure support for software engineering team. Also assist with the quality assurance of three product codebases, working on a weekly agile sprint cycle
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Oberlin College Oberlin, OH: June 2012 - July 2013
- Sustainable Technology Research Fellow: Responsible for the technical management of the Oberlin Dashboard Project, comprised of 100s of real-time sensors throughout the College and city SCADA systems for monitoring resource consumption. Manage team of student employees and act as a technical resource for community outreach projects.
- Novell Provo, UT: June 2010 - July 2013
- SUSE Linux Advantage Support Engineer: Tier II Support engineer for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for our priority enterprise customer accounts. Work personally with software development team to provide rapid hotfix fixes and features for these high value customers.
Education
- 2020 MS: Energy & Resources Group - UC Berkeley
- LBL International Energy Studies Group Berkeley, CA: Jan 2018 - May 2020
- Co-author and Software Developer for Mapping for Environmental Justice’s feed lot classification and mapping project
- CE295 Energy Systems & Control, Scott Moura
- PP275: Spatial Data & Analysis, Solomon Hsiang
- ER254 Electric Power Systems, Duncan Callaway
- MBA212 Energy and Environmental Markets, Severin Borenstein
- ER131 Environment, Data & Society, Duncan Callaway
- 2012 BA: Environmental Studies & Globalization / Minor in French - Westminster College
Awards & Extracurriculars
- 2015 Henry Luce Scholar - Henry Luce Foundation
- 2003 Eagle Scout - Boy Scouts of America