Dan Kovacek
Prinicpal Engineer at DK Hydrotech
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolDan Kovacek is an EGBC-registered Principal Engineer and independent consultant based in Vancouver with 18+ years in water resources and 11 years of professional experience delivering civil and mechanical engineering solutions for hydropower, flood risk, and hydrometeorological challenges. He combines hands-on engineering design and construction oversight with sophisticated data engineering—developing near-real-time environmental flow monitoring across nineteen run-of-river plants, anomaly detection in time series, Monte Carlo risk analysis, and hydrometric data platforms. His work spans field-scale project delivery (from tailings and pipelines to dam and intake design) to energy modelling and independent performance reviews, informed by PhD-level hydrotechnical research at UBC. Not obvious from titles alone, he blends mechanical engineering roots with strong informatics skills to turn noisy sensor data into actionable operational and design decisions.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
PhD (Candidate), Hydrotechnical Engineering, PhD (Candidate), Hydrotechnical Engineering at The University of British ColumbiaBachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Mechanical Engineering at McGill University
English, Spanish, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (65)
digital-elevation-model10
bokeh9
javascript9
altair9
ipywidgets9
pyodide9
python9
hydrology9
watershed9
visualization9
data-visualisation9
frequency-analysis9
gis9
jupyter9
hpc-applications8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
dankovacek/Engineering_Hydrology_Notebooks
Sep 2020 - Nov 2022
Contributions:127 commits, 111 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 2 months
dankovacek/flood_frequency
Sep 2019 - Mar 2022
An interactive application for exploring the nature of flood frequency analysis.
Contributions:41 commits, 18 pushes in 2 years 5 months
floodpythonflood-frequency-analysisfrequency-analysisnature
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