Matilde Rivas
Solutions Engineer at Cero (YC S21)
Santiago Metropolitan Area Chile
Summary
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Top SchoolMatilde Rivas is a solutions engineer and computer scientist with nine years of experience building data-driven systems that bridge geospatial analysis, environmental science, and scalable engineering. She has led development and maintenance of an open-source C++ wildfire simulator and built geospatial APIs using FastAPI, PostGIS and GeoAlchemy, bringing scientific models into production-ready tooling. Her background spans applied research, cloud dashboarding on GCP, ETL and MDM pipelines in Azure, and NLP-driven social data analysis—skills she leverages to tackle climate adaptation and mitigation challenges. Comfortable moving between research code and production standards, she champions testing, documentation and reproducible workflows that accelerate cross-disciplinary teams. Based in Santiago, Chile, she combines algorithmic rigor with practical experience in internships, teaching and R&D to translate novel research into impactful, nature-positive solutions.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's degree, Computer Science, Engineer's degree, Computer Science at Universidad de Chile
English, French, Spanish, Italian
Github Skills (21)
datasets8
qgis-processing8
visualization8
altair7
simulation7
seaborn7
python7
myo7
folium6
data-science6
qgis4
imu4
routeros4
data-analysis4
data-visualization3
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
matildeRivas/crisprSDS
Aug 2019 - Jan 2021
Program for identifying CRISPR in a genome (FASTA format) using succint data structures such as succint wavelet trees and compressed suffix trees
Contributions:2 PRs, 14 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 4 months
waveletcrisprgenomecompressed-suffix-treessuffix
matildeRivas/aves
May 2023 - Feb 2024
🐦AVES: Análisis y Visualización, Educación y Soporte
Contributions:34 pushes, 5 branches in 8 months
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