Mike Kittridge
Postdoctoral Researcher at Headwaters Hydrology
Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolMike Kittridge is a postdoctoral researcher and data-focused hydrologist with 11 years of experience designing scalable data systems, scientific processing pipelines, and reporting tools for hydrologic and atmospheric science. He combines deep domain expertise—from field instrumentation and fluvial geomorphology to WRF climate modelling—with software best practices to make science reproducible, testable, and openly available. As a freelancer and through roles at Environment Canterbury and Headwaters Hydrology he has built public data management platforms and applied-time-series analytics across New Zealand’s freshwater and atmospheric projects. His PhD on solute transport and hands-on field deployments underpin a rare blend of rigorous experimental science and production-ready data engineering. Notably, he maintains and showcases public datasets and discovery apps (e.g., the Environmental Digital Library) to broaden access and reuse of environmental data.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Vienna University of TechnologyM.S. Hydrogeology, M.S. Hydrogeology at University of South Florida
English, German
Github Skills (200)
python10
data-manipulation10
forge10
datasets10
geography10
spatial10
netcdf10
dataframes10
pandas10
geopandas10
geographic10
data-science10
conda10
dask10
pypi10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
mullenkamp/nz-flow-naturalisation
Nov 2020 - Jan 2025
Contributions:30 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 2 months
headwaters-hydrology/olw2-sc008
Jan 2024 - Sep 2024
A Web Application to help design monitoring programmes to assess the effectiveness of freshwater restoration actions in New Zealand
Contributions:2 releases, 23 PRs, 57 pushes in 8 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.