Evan Turner
Surface Water Scientific Data Team Lead (Data Scientist I)
Leander, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolEvan Turner is a data-driven scientist and engineering lead with 11 years of experience uniting computer science, hydrology, and coastal science to modernize environmental data systems. As Surface Water Scientific Data Team Lead at the Texas Water Development Board, he oversees metadata, archival standards, and Snowflake-based cloud pipelines that power Water Data for Texas and automated QA/QC across statewide monitoring networks. He has a rare combo of field experience—running estuary monitoring programs and training field hydrologists—and deep technical chops building reproducible analytics, open-source Python tooling, and production data architectures. Evan has led long-running digital transformations from legacy HIS platforms to scalable, interoperable repositories and even served as an enterprise HPC and systems architect earlier in his career. He mentors technical staff, teaches reproducible scientific computing across the agency, and brings contract management and stakeholder-facing communication to technical program delivery. Based in Leander, Texas, he pairs a PhD in Coastal Marine System Science and a BS in Computer Science to turn complex environmental science into auditable, production-grade data workflows.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Business Administration and Management, General, Master of Business Administration - MBA, Business Administration and Management, General at University of PhoenixDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Coastal Marine System Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Coastal Marine System Science at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
Github Skills (30)
minecraft9
forge9
extraction9
tabula8
journal7
logging7
binary-data7
open-access6
merging-data6
python6
creative-commons5
windrose5
pdf5
academia5
probability-density4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
evanleeturner/easymodeler
Mar 2015 - Oct 2019
Simple Python Ordinary Differential Equation (ODE) Tools for Modelers
Contributions:1 release, 8 PRs, 14 pushes in 4 years 7 months
equationpythondynamical-systemsnumerical-analysisdifferential
evanleeturner/sonde3
Jul 2017 - Nov 2020
A python3 library for extracting and processing binary data from scientific logging instruments
Contributions:1 release, 114 commits, 6 PRs in 3 years 4 months
binary-datapythonextractionanalysispython3-library
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