Matt Luck
Senior Geospatial Scientist
Bozeman, Montana, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatt Luck is a Senior Geospatial Scientist and landscape ecologist with over two decades of interdisciplinary experience applying scripted GIS and open-source Python toolchains to river networks, flood inundation mapping, and urban landscape analysis. Currently directing scientific and technical efforts for NOAA's Office of Water Prediction, he blends hands-on development (pandas, geopandas, rasterio, Docker, AWS) with project leadership and production deployment of flood mapping systems. His background spans academia, government, and private sector research—anchored by a Ph.D. in Biology—and includes building hydrologic models, teaching data science, and maintaining reproducible code in GitHub. Unusually for a scientist-developer, he has real-world operational experience as a commercial pilot and flight instructor and as a technical rock and alpine guide, bringing pragmatic risk management and field-tested problem solving to complex geospatial projects.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
M.S., Biology, M.S., Biology at Arizona State UniversityCalifornia Polytechnic State University, San Luis ObispoPh.D., Biology, Ph.D., Biology at The University of New MexicoLimnology, Limnology at Uppsala University
Github Skills (42)
geoscience10
ord10
evaluation10
geopandas10
water10
geospatial10
geographic10
gis10
hydrology10
noaa10
geography10
geodesy10
spatial10
geology10
pandas9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
mluck/docker-gdal
Mar 2021 - Apr 2021
Contributions:12 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
mluck/dotfiles
Jan 2021 - Mar 2021
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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