OpSci Employee Directory
Software DevelopmentCalifornia, United States2-10 Employees
OpSci is a small software development outfit based in San Diego that supports scholarly collaboration through an autonomous research community. It seeks to convert visible scientific contributions into portable reputation and funding pathways for knowledge creators. The organization structures its work around three core pillars: Verse, a decentralized registry of academic identities; Fellows, a mentor–mentee matching system in which contributors retain ownership; and Commons, a platform for freely archiving and sharing large, FAIR datasets. Its work targets researchers and other knowledge producers who need verifiable identities, constructive mentoring networks, and open access to sizable datasets. By combining identity governance, ownership-aware mentorship, and open data sharing, OpSci sits at the intersection of software development and open science infrastructure. The company operates from San Diego with a small team, focusing on building scalable tools to support scientific work without relying on traditional centralized platforms.