Julie Padilla
Water Planner, Real-Time Reservoir Management And Forecasting
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJulie Padilla is a licensed Professional Engineer and data scientist with nine years of experience applying environmental engineering and watershed science to real-time reservoir management and forecasting. Currently a Water Planner at Seattle Public Utilities after leading reproducible data assembly and cross-branch projects at USGS, she blends hands-on R programming and modeling with team leadership, mentoring, and stakeholder engagement. Her work has accelerated project workflows through custom R tools that streamline data processing, visualization, and post-processing of modeling results. Previously at LimnoTech she built and monetized a client portfolio across NOAA and coastal programs, directly generating significant project revenue. Based in Seattle and grounded in an MS from Michigan Tech and a BS from Stanford, she brings a rare combination of field-focused ecological insight and reproducible software practices to water resources decision-making.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS), Environmental Engineering, Master of Science (MS), Environmental Engineering at Michigan Technological UniversityBachelor of Science (BS), Geological & Environmental Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Geological & Environmental Science at Stanford University
English, Spanish
Github Skills (82)
r-package10
r9
water9
pipeline9
sample-data9
data-monitoring9
government-data9
water-quality9
carbon-emissions9
process-model8
hydrology8
metadata8
prediction-model8
targets8
climate-change8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
padilla410/lake-temperature-model-prep
Dec 2021 - Mar 2023
Pipeline #1
Contributions:4 PRs, 129 pushes, 26 branches in 1 year 3 months
pipeline
USGS-R/lake-temperature-missouri-models
Jun 2022 - Apr 2023
GLM process model pipeline for 8 priority reservoirs in Missouri
Contributions:27 reviews, 16 PRs, 10 pushes in 10 months
process-modelmissouripipelineglmpriority
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