Kevin Mendoza
Postdoctoral Appointee at Bay Area Geophysical Society
Oakland, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Mendoza is a PhD-trained geophysicist and postdoctoral appointee at Sandia National Labs who blends deep-domain Earth science expertise with production-grade Python and machine learning to solve large-scale geophysical inverse problems. He developed interoperable tooling (cython, numba, dask/xarray pipelines and pip-installable packages) that automated workflows for 2D–4D magnetotelluric and ambient-noise tomography, saving thousands of researcher hours and enabling reproducible science. His industry work analyzing low-frequency DAS at ConocoPhillips produced a highly cited paper and a patent, stemming from a massively parallel ML model-testing pipeline and exploratory UI he built. Comfortable in field logistics and high-performance computing alike, he has published papers, holds two patents, and contributes to DEI and mentorship efforts. Based in Oakland, he’s equally likely to be found backpacking, playing flamenco guitar, or prospecting for gold when not turning complex geophysics into scalable software.
10 years of coding experience
The University of UtahBachelor's degree, Physics, 3.69, Bachelor's degree, Physics, 3.69 at University of California, Merced
English, spanish (broken)
Github Skills (162)
mesh10
vtk10
ambient10
eagle10
issue-tracking10
cartography9
maps9
python9
pyvista9
cartopy9
geography9
correlation9
netcdf9
mesh-processing9
noise9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
El-minadero/GeoWorld
Jan 2017 - May 2018
Contributions:16 commits, 64 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 3 months
k-a-mendoza/mt-explore
Mar 2019 - Jan 2023
MT Explore is a cartopy and mtpy based utility for viewing and cleaning Magnetotelluric data
Contributions:50 commits, 2 PRs, 42 pushes in 3 years 10 months
cleaningpythoncartopyexplore
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