Alan Butler
Hydrologic Engineer at Bureau of Reclamation
Boulder, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlan Butler is a Hydrologic Engineer with 11 years' experience at the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, specializing in developing, validating, and communicating complex physical and statistical models of the Colorado River system. He combines domain expertise in RiverWare-based reservoir modeling with reproducible analysis and tooling in R, including maintaining open-source packages that automate stakeholder-facing monthly and quarterly analyses. Alan has led high-profile basin studies, chaired interagency workgroups on environmental flows, and trains external users to replicate and debug simulations—bridging technical modeling with clear decision-support. Based in Boulder, he leverages a rare blend of water-resources engineering and computer-science rigor (MS, Georgia Tech) to translate large dataset workflows into auditable results for policymakers and stakeholders.
11 years of coding experience
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, 4.0, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, 4.0 at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBS/MS, Water Resources Engineering, Civil Engineering, BS/MS, Water Resources Engineering, Civil Engineering at University of Colorado Boulder
English
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Github Skills (29)
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
rabutler/rabutler.github.io
Dec 2015 - Feb 2024
My Site
Contributions:15 PRs, 855 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 3 months
jekyllmy-site
rabutler/BoulderTemps
Feb 2017 - May 2023
Contributions:862 pushes, 1 branch, 2 comments in 6 years 3 months
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