Brian Avant
Staff Software Engineer at BlackSky
Nashville-Davidson, Tennessee, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Avant is a Staff Software Engineer with a decade of experience applying software engineering to geospatial and environmental modeling, currently advancing satellite analytics at BlackSky. He blends domain expertise in hydrology and fate-and-transport modeling with hands-on skills in Python, R, Docker, and scalable Linux/Windows pipelines to deliver production-ready predictive systems. His background includes EPA research producing peer-reviewed work, CONUS-scale hydrologic models, and building microservice flow-routing and visualization tools, reflecting an ability to turn scientific models into maintainable software. Based in Nashville, he’s equally comfortable debugging algorithmic issues, developing QA and testing infrastructure, and translating complex environmental science into practical tools for operational use.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Environmental Science/GIS, Bachelor of Science (BS) Environmental Science/GIS at Gainesville State CollegeUniversity of Georgia
Github Skills (23)
geoscience10
ord10
evaluation10
water10
gis10
hydrology10
noaa10
geodesy10
geology10
python9
hec-ras8
simulation7
ras7
modeling7
rating6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
BrianAvant-NOAA/BrianAvant-NOAA.github.io
Nov 2018 - May 2022
Personal Website
Contributions:2 PRs, 336 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 6 months
react
quanted/wq_screen
Jan 2017 - Jun 2019
Contributions:33 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 4 months
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