Andrew Freebairn
Senior Experimental Scientist at CSIRO Land and Water
Canberra, Australia
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Top SchoolAndrew Freebairn is a Senior Experimental Scientist and seasoned software engineer with over 20 years of experience building environmental modelling systems and decision support tools for national agencies. Based in Canberra, he has delivered nationally significant projects at eWater CRC, Catchment Hydrology CRC and CSIRO, specialising in discovering and visualising spatio‑temporal data from national Spatial Information Service stacks and enabling robust biophysical modelling workflows like rainfall–runoff calibration. He blends deep domain knowledge in hydrology with practical software craft—creating user interfaces that let stakeholders easily configure and run integrated modelling tasks. Known for collaborative development with state agencies managing the Murray–Darling Basin, he focuses on turning complex environmental science into usable, auditable systems. A background spanning mechanical engineering, agricultural science and IT gives him a pragmatic systems perspective that informs both code and stakeholder engagement.
9 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Associate Diploma Mechanical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Associate Diploma Mechanical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering at Canberra Institute of TechnologyBachelor's degree, Information Technology, Bachelor's degree, Information Technology at University of CanberraHigh School, High School at The Scots School BathurstBachelor’s Degree, Agricultural Science (converted to Bachelor of IT at UC), Bachelor’s Degree, Agricultural Science (converted to Bachelor of IT at UC) at Charles Sturt University
Github Skills (38)
data-service9
water9
netcdf7
datacube7
gdal7
biodiversity7
gis7
raster7
python7
ocean6
renewable-energy6
carbon-emissions6
climate-science6
private-key6
energy6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
fre171csiro/blog-notes
Jul 2022 - Oct 2024
Contributions:1 PR, 13 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 3 months
csiro-hydroinformatics/pybomwater
Nov 2020 - Dec 2021
Tool for requesting data from BoM Water Data Service
Contributions:2 releases, 40 commits, 2 PRs in 1 year 1 month
waterpythondata-servicebom
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