Florian Mayer
Senior Data Platforms Engineer
Perth, Western Australia
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Top SchoolFlorian Mayer is a Senior Data Platforms Engineer with 11 yearsâ experience building data-driven systems that turn ecological monitoring and research into actionable conservation management in Western Australia. He has architected and delivered production Django platforms and government portals (including PeopleWA Apply and the original data.wa.gov.au), implemented CKAN catalogues, automated knowledge pipelines and offline data capture, and built R APIs and reporting workflows that bridge science and operations. Fluent across full-stack engineering, spatial modelling and ecoinformatics, he champions standards, governance and reproducible workflows to make long-term environmental data discoverable and defensible. Based in Perth, he blends academic rigour (Diplom in Ecology & Computer Science, magna cum laude) with pragmatic product delivery for public-sector impact, and has a history of contributing to open-source tools in CKAN, R and ODK ecosystems.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Diplom (BSc Hons equiv.), Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Computer Science, magna cum laude, Diplom (BSc Hons equiv.), Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Computer Science, magna cum laude at Ludwig-Maximilians Universität Mßnchen / University of Munich
German, English, python, r, sql, latex, javascript, es6
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
drag10
metadata10
data-gov10
cesiumjs10
schema10
commons10
catalog10
api10
points10
open-data10
data-catalog10
data-collection10
python10
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itil10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
dbca-wa/etlTurtleNesting
Aug 2020 - Nov 2022
Contributions:158 pushes, 1 branch, 39 tags in 2 years 3 months
dbca-wa/rOzCBI
Jan 2020 - Aug 2023
Contributions:219 pushes, 4 branches, 6 comments in 3 years 7 months
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