Matt Bayly
Quantitative Biologist Application Developer Principal
Whistler, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolMatt Bayly is a Principal Quantitative Biologist and application developer with 11 years of experience blending ecological science and spatial data engineering from Whistler, BC. He designs and implements habitat and population models, complex machine learning workflows, and 2D hydrodynamic analyses while automating large-scale spatial analysis pipelines primarily in R, Python and FOSS4G tools. Matt builds decision-support web and server systems (LAMP, PostGIS, GeoServer, Leaflet/Mapbox) and is comfortable provisioning Ubuntu/Raspbian servers end-to-end. His work bridges rigorous ecological theory from an MSc in Botany with pragmatic software delivery, enabling reproducible analyses and operational tools used in environmental consultancy. Notably, he pairs deep R mastery with practical geospatial engineering (GDAL/GRASS, GEE, HEC-RAS) to turn field data and complex models into actionable products for stakeholders.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Biology/Biological Sciences, General, Bachelor's degree, Biology/Biological Sciences, General at University of VictoriaMaster of Science - MS, Botany/Plant Biology, Master of Science - MS, Botany/Plant Biology at The University of British Columbia
Stackoverflow
556reputation
117kreached
13answers
1question
raster
top-5%
Github Skills (32)
raster9
grass9
scrum8
r-package8
jira7
arcgis7
gis7
agile7
spatial6
rgl6
satellite-images6
merge6
gsub6
scale6
php6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
essatech/JoeModelCE
Oct 2021 - Feb 2023
Contributions:16 commits, 50 pushes, 7 branches in 1 year 3 months
essatech/MNAI.CPBT
Apr 2021 - Jun 2023
Contributions:29 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.