Mark Matthews
Founder & CEO at CyanoLakes Australia
Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolMark Matthews is a founder-CEO and scientist blending a decade of applied remote sensing research with hands-on Python data engineering to tackle water quality and cyanobacterial monitoring. With a PhD in bio-optics from the University of Cape Town, he has led multidisciplinary projects for national agencies and utilities across South Africa and Australia and built CyanoLakes into a commercial bridge between academic remote sensing and operational water management. He combines academic credibility—honorary research roles, supervised graduate students, and funded EU/H2020 and national grants—with practical delivery as a freelance developer and consultant for organisations like CSIR and CSIRO. Technically fluent in Python and geospatial workflows, he has implemented end-to-end processing pipelines and contributed code for oceanographic and inland-water bio-optical analysis. Beyond work, he brings uncommon domain depth and creativity—jazz saxophonist, songwriter, and avid fly-fisher—which surfaces in a thoughtful, interdisciplinary approach to solving environmental problems.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Bio-optics and remote sensing, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Bio-optics and remote sensing at University of Cape Town
Afrikaans, English, Hebrew
Github Skills (15)
satellite9
landsat9
sentinel9
sar9
insar9
earth-observation9
coordinates7
location6
geolocation5
timezone5
python3
wgs843
cpython2
java1
datasets1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
CyanoLakes/api-scripts
Jun 2020 - Jan 2026
R scripts for the CyanoLakes API
Contributions:1 PR, 5 pushes in 5 years 7 months
MarkWilliamMatthews/GitTipsAndTricks
Jun 2020 - Jul 2025
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 2 months
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