Matthew Bauer
Associate
Golden, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Bauer is an Associate and geoscience-focused data practitioner with eight years of experience translating Big Data into actionable value across energy and minerals. He builds spatial ETL pipelines, regional petrophysics analytics, workflow automation, and large-scale well-log and production analysis that inform asset cash flows, logistics, and exploration decisions. Matthew teaches and co-developed applied data science curriculum at Colorado School of Mines, and runs coding-literacy projects (including widely used Colab notebooks for Practical Python for Earth Scientists) to lower the barrier for geoscientists learning Python. His background spans industry roles from VP of Data Science to chief geologist and research faculty, where he has automated workflows that reduced manhours by orders of magnitude and recovered multi-million-dollar data value. Based in Golden, Colorado, he combines field geoscience instincts with production-grade software practices and a knack for extracting spatial insight from text and messy public records. Notably, he has integrated geostatistics, Monte Carlo financial models, and custom geofencing tools to bridge technical analysis and commercial decision-making.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Red Rocks Community CollegeMaster of Science (M.S.) Geological and Earth Sciences/Geosciences, Master of Science (M.S.) Geological and Earth Sciences/Geosciences at Colorado School of MinesBachelor of Science Geology, Bachelor of Science Geology at University of Missouri-Kansas City
Github Skills (15)
geophysics8
geology8
data-management7
logging7
prediction6
data-mining6
science6
python6
data-quality5
machine-learning5
networkx4
data-science4
network-visualization4
visualization2
graph2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Rocks-n-Code/petrodict
May 2018 - Jun 2020
Contributions:10 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
pythonprediction
Rocks-n-Code/PythonCourse
Jan 2020 - Dec 2022
Contributions:121 commits, 138 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 11 months
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