Brett Buzzanga
Software Lead at Conservation Technology Accelerator
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrett Buzzanga is an Earth and Geospatial Scientist with nine years of experience applying remote sensing and computational methods to coastal systems, currently a Research Scientist at UCLA and a Research Affiliate at JPL. He earned a PhD in Computational Oceanography and has led InSAR-based studies of vertical land motion, translating research-grade processing into practical tools. A consistent contributor to the MintPy InSAR time-series Python project, Brett focuses on core pipeline reliability—bug fixes, refactors, and data-handling improvements that make scientific workflows more robust. His work bridges academic research and operational software development, and he now also guides software efforts at the Conservation Technology Accelerator. Colleagues know him for combining rigorous geophysical insight with pragmatic engineering to deliver reproducible coastal monitoring solutions.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Associate’s Degree Math and Science, Associate’s Degree Math and Science at Brookdale Community CollegeDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computational Oceanography, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computational Oceanography at Old Dominion UniversityBachelor's degree Political Philosophy, Bachelor's degree Political Philosophy at Rutgers University
Github Skills (10)
insar10
raid10
time-series10
geophysics10
python10
geodesy10
rad10
numpy9
data-analysis9
hdf9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
insarlab/MintPy
Mar 2020 - Sep 2022
Miami InSAR time-series software in Python
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 11 commits, 15 PRs in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Brett primarily contributes to the `mintpy` project by fixing bugs, improving functionality, and refactoring code. The user's commits involve modifications to core modules like `network.py`, `modify_network.py`, `ifgram_inversion.py`, `resample.py`, and others, indicating a focus on the processing and analysis pipeline. Their work includes correcting argument names, improving data handling, and ensuring the correct operation of the InSAR time-series software. These contributions focus on core functionality and bug fixes within the project's scientific data processing core.
insarpythontime-seriesdeformationgeodesy
bbuzz31/ModSWMM
May 2017 - Jan 2023
Coupling interface for MODFLOW and SWMM
Contributions:149 commits, 11 PRs, 33 pushes in 5 years 9 months
pythonswmm5couplingmodflowswmm
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