Tobias Lunt
CTO at Development Data Lab
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTobias Lunt is a CTO and co-founder who leads data engineering, analytics, geospatial, and visualization at Development Data Lab, turning messy, large datasets into policy-relevant insights to fight poverty. With over a decade in development economics and data science, he has applied Stata, Python, GIS, and parallel computing to poverty research and tool-building. At The World Bank, he built bespoke software to streamline research and reduce compute time, enabling robust causal inferences from complex spatial, panel, and time-series data. His Fulbright in Ethiopia involved MCMC simulations, ANOVA, and Random Forest analyses to study climate-smart agriculture and food security. He blends academic training from Dartmouth and UW–Madison with production-ready software and data platforms, shaping solutions from research to deployment. Based in Madison, Wisconsin, he champions open-source data and software to accelerate development impact and build reproducible tools that scale across organizations.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Agroecology and Plant Pathology, Master's Degree, Agroecology and Plant Pathology at University of Wisconsin-MadisonBS, Environmental Studies, BS, Environmental Studies at Dartmouth College
french (intermediate), italian (intermediate)
Github Skills (14)
open-data8
reactjs7
redux6
react5
dashboard5
javascript5
typescript4
open-source4
replication3
district3
nextjs2
effort2
homebrew1
ruby1
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
tobylunt/tobylunt.github.io
Nov 2015 - Dec 2024
TL personal website
Contributions:46 PRs, 77 pushes, 10 branches in 9 years 2 months
react
devdatalab/rural-data-platform
Jan 2021 - Aug 2021
Contributions:61 commits, 5 pushes, 1 comment in 7 months
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