Georgi
Chertkov

Founder & Full-stack Developer

Founded and continue to build a React Native travel-planning product end-to-end.

• Own product strategy, interface design, architecture and day-to-day development.
• Build the React Native mobile application and supporting full-stack systems.
• Handle recommendation logic, maps, testing, releases, maintenance and the product website.

Founder

Lead the lifecycle of a web application that makes complex carbon-offset information easier to explore and understand.

• Oversee product development, enhancements, maintenance and future application strategy.
• Manage complex datasets and scalable performance for a growing global user base.
• Keep the application aligned with evolving offset standards, registry information and credit-retirement data.
• Write and maintain Python, JavaScript and SQL; troubleshoot issues and communicate with external stakeholders.

Environmental Scientist / Biostatistician II

Worked across carbon-market research, interdisciplinary project design and public-facing agrivoltaics communication.

• Created and maintained avsinfronteras.org, with networking, paper recommendations, maps and forums for a seminar series across the Americas.
• Created salsav.org for a University of Arizona agrivoltaics research group, using interactive maps, animations and graphs.
• Developed and managed carbon-market research, including Biosphere 2's potential as a testing ground for carbon methodologies.
• Translated complex information for researchers and stakeholders, contributed to project design and co-authored academic work.

Expert

• Published analytical reports, presentations and guidance for policymakers.
• Researched emissions markets, carbon pricing, carbon farming, regenerative agriculture and agricultural technology.
• Analyzed agricultural firms, ag-tech startups and transport infrastructure; provided applied research and consultancy.

Future Policy Award Intern

• Researched and co-wrote 12 of the 26 policies evaluated for the 2019 Future Policy Award with IPU and UNDP.
• Interviewed experts across government, academia and civil society.
• Co-authored research on agroecology and digitization and prepared public communications.

Masters Student

• Conducted quantitative and qualitative research with 39 aquaculture farmers and industry informants.
• Budgeted and organized fieldwork across WorldFish, the University of Hohenheim, Myanmar's Department of Fisheries and BRAC.
• Performed financial, cost-benefit and investment analyses using household survey data.