Matt Hall
Advisor at Equinor
Bergen, Vestland, Norway
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Top SchoolMatt Hall is an advisor and scientific Python programmer with 12 years in software and a decades-long background in geoscience and leadership. Based in Bergen, Norway, he builds open source tools for scientists and engineers at Equinor while advising on subsurface simulation, data assimilation, and developer tooling. He co-founded Software Underground to foster collaboration among digital subsurface scientists and remains active publishing and contributing to projects such as the well log-focused welly library. Matt combines hands-on full‑stack development and documentation improvements with domain expertise from roles across industry and startups, including founding Agile* and running open-access publishing efforts. His PhD in geology underpins a rare mix of computational skill and deep domain knowledge, and he often applies open data and reproducible science principles to bridge research and production workflows.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Geology, PhD, Geology at The University of ManchesterBSc, Geology, BSc, Geology at Durham University
English, Norwegian, French, Spanish, python, javascript
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Github Skills (13)
pandas10
python10
matplotlib10
documentation9
numpy9
graph6
machine-learning6
scipy6
plot6
contour6
scikit-learn6
colormap6
image-processing6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
agilescientific/welly
Nov 2021 - May 2022
Welly helps with well loading, wireline logs, log quality, data science
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 1 review, 124 commits in 6 months
Contributions summary:Matt appears to be making updates to the tutorial and plotting functionality of the welly project. They are working on plotting functionalities and fixing bugs within the plotting and curve functionalities. They also made several updates to the documentation.
data-managementpythongeologydata-qualitygeophysics
agilescientific/agilescientific.github.io
Feb 2022 - Jan 2023
Contributions:53 commits, 25 pushes, 2 branches in 11 months
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