Fernando Aristizabal
Lead Scientist And Developer, FIM at ERT, Inc.
Gainesville, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolFernando Aristizabal is a Lead Scientist and Developer specializing in geospatial data science, hydrology, remote sensing, and production-grade software engineering, with a decade of interdisciplinary experience. He develops NOAA-contracted methods for generating and validating high-resolution flood inundation maps used for public warnings and near-real-time intelligence, bridging research-grade models and operational systems. Fernando pairs rigorous academic training (PhD, MS, BS from the University of Florida) with a practical toolchain spanning Python, C++, TensorFlow, GDAL, Docker, and cloud platforms to deliver scalable, reproducible pipelines. He also explores efficient deep-learning approaches to solving PDEs relevant to hydrology, an area that informs both his operational mapping work and academic output visible on Google Scholar. Based in Gainesville, Florida, he brings a rare combination of domain expertise, production engineering, and a focus on resilience and resource management for climate-related risks.
10 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at University of Florida
Spanish, English
Github Skills (56)
geoscience10
ord10
evaluation10
water10
topography10
gis10
hydrology10
noaa10
geodesy10
ldd10
geology10
python9
geopandas9
geography9
watershed9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
fernando-aristizabal/gVal
Aug 2022 - Dec 2022
Contributions:94 commits, 88 pushes, 2 branches in 3 months
NOAA-OWP/inundation-mapping
Feb 2020 - Jan 2023
Flood inundation mapping and evaluation software configured to work with U.S. National Water Model.
Contributions:5 reviews, 301 commits, 64 pushes in 3 years
national-water-centernationalpythonnational-hydrography-datasetgis
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