Michael Neilson
Hydrologic Technician at US Army Corps of Engineers
Sacramento, California, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Neilson is a Hydrologic Technician with 11 years of experience designing and operating data pipelines that move hydro-meteorological measurements from remote sensors to public and operational systems. At the US Army Corps of Engineers he has combined field expertise with software development—contributing to OpenDCS, CWMS Data API, and district support—to ensure temperature, precipitation, solar radiation, and pressure data are accurate and actionable. He holds a BS in Software Development and brings a rare blend of hands-on instrumentation knowledge and backend integration skills. Michael's work emphasizes data quality, traceability, and timely delivery for decision-makers and the public, often solving connectivity and processing challenges in austere environments. Based in Sacramento, he pairs an engineering mindset informed by additional electrical engineering studies with practical civil-hydraulic experience. Colleagues rely on him to translate noisy sensor streams into reliable information that sustains water-resources operations.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
California State University, SacramentoAssociate of Science - AS, Mathematics, Associate of Science - AS, Mathematics at Sacramento City CollegeBachelor of Science - BS, Software Development, Bachelor of Science - BS, Software Development at Western Governors University
Github Skills (89)
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
opendcs/java-algebra-system
Sep 2022 - May 2025
An extensible, intuitive and easy to use algebra system that is capable of algebraic manipulation, simplification, differentiation, and much more. Reverse engineered from TI-nspire CAS.
Contributions:3 releases, 1 PR, 14 pushes in 2 years 8 months
manipulationsymbolic-computationlinear-algebracomputer-algebra-systemdifferentiation
USACE/cwms-data-api
Oct 2020 - Jan 2023
Corps Water Management System RESTful Data Service https://cwms-data-api.readthedocs.io/latest
Contributions:8 releases, 964 reviews, 455 commits in 2 years 4 months
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