Nathaniel Kale
Principal Planner, Office Of Chehalis Basin at Washington State Department of Ecology
Olympia, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolNathaniel Kale is a Principal Planner with 12 years of experience applying technical chops to water resources and environmental policy across state and local agencies. Based in Olympia, he manages multi-project portfolios for the Office of Chehalis Basin and has stepped into interim director and policy roles, blending program leadership with hands-on project delivery. Equally at home in the field and behind a screen, he’s been the de facto staff technologist everywhere he’s worked—building GIS products, automating workflows with Python and R, repairing Excel/Access systems, and creating web apps to make data usable. His background in environmental planning and philosophy gives him a pragmatic yet systems-oriented approach to complex watershed problems. Colleagues rely on him not just to learn new tools quickly, but to “fix broken things” so teams can move from data to decisions.
12 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Masters, Urban and Regional Planning - Environmental Planning Emphasis, Masters, Urban and Regional Planning - Environmental Planning Emphasis at University of MinnesotaBA, Philosophy, Spanish, BA, Philosophy, Spanish at University of Minnesota Morris
Spanish
Stackoverflow
325reputation
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3answers
7questions
Github Skills (61)
r-package7
filtering6
firefox6
adp6
dplyr6
ggmap6
png6
sample-data6
synchronize6
vba6
stamen-maps6
datetime6
ecology6
electron6
government-data5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ethankale/eim
Mar 2014 - May 2015
Contributions:35 commits, 14 pushes, 1 comment in 1 year 2 months
ethankale/Sedna
Jun 2020 - Jan 2021
Water database. Evolution of King County's GData.
Contributions:6 releases, 3 PRs, 126 pushes in 7 months
gdataevolutiondatabasekingwater
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