Chris Leaman
Principal Coastal & Maritime Structural Engineer National Maritime Team Lead
Brisbane City, Queensland, Australia
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Top SchoolChris Leaman is a chartered coastal and maritime structural engineer and national maritime team lead with over 15 years of multidisciplinary experience across consultancy, government and academia. He combines PhD-level research in coastal hazard forecasting with hands-on delivery of maritime infrastructure—from wharves and seawalls to defence projects—while leading a national team and driving successful bids and client relationships. Skilled in coastal modelling, remote sensing and practical structural design, he also contributes to open-source tools like CoastSat, improving shoreline detection UX and speeding satellite-based analysis. Based in Brisbane, he bridges cutting-edge early warning research and pragmatic engineering delivery, with a track record of translating complex coastal science into operational solutions.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering, Civil (Extended Major), Bachelor of Engineering, Civil (Extended Major) at The University of QueenslandUNSW Sydney
Github Skills (5)
jupyter-notebook10
python10
matplotlib10
sens9
geospatial8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
kvos/CoastSat
May 2019 - May 2019
Global shoreline mapping tool from satellite imagery
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 2 PRs, 6 comments in 3 days
Contributions summary:Chris primarily focused on enhancing the user interface for shoreline detection visualization within the CoastSat project. Their contributions involved refactoring the figure display logic, addressing issues of repeated window creation, and optimizing the interactive experience by replacing button-based interactions with keyboard shortcuts. Furthermore, they implemented improvements for user interaction, and streamlined the process of reviewing and validating shoreline detections. These changes collectively aim to improve the speed and user experience during shoreline data analysis.
satellite-imageryshoreline-detectiongeospatialshorelinesatellite-images
chrisleaman/awesome-coastal
May 2019 - Dec 2022
A curated list of awesome resources for coastal engineers and scientists
Contributions:34 commits, 3 PRs, 32 pushes in 3 years 8 months
scientistspythongeologycoastaloceanography
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