Nicholas Wayand
Senior Applied Scientist at Amazon
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNicholas Wayand is a Senior Applied Scientist with 11 years blending atmospheric science and data science to reduce weather-driven disruptions across Amazon’s global logistics and electrification efforts. He leads practical ML and forecasting initiatives that translate remote sensing, climate risk, and hydrology research into operational solutions for last-mile transportation. His background includes a PhD in hydrology and extensive fieldwork—snow surveys, sensor deployments, and model development—that informs robust models for flood and flood-on-snow risk. Nicholas has bridged academia and industry through postdoctoral Arctic sea-ice prediction work and ongoing scientific expert witness consulting. Colleagues rely on him for turning complex environmental observations into scalable, production-ready systems that shave downtime from supply chains. He’s equally at home in hands-on field campaigns and deploying ML at scale, a combination that makes his weather-to-operations impact unusually grounded.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Civil and Environmental Engineering; Hydrology; Climate Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Civil and Environmental Engineering; Hydrology; Climate Science at University of Washington
Hindi, Tamil
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (123)
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python10
ipython10
datasets10
oceanography10
netcdf10
pandas10
numpy10
jupyter10
multi-user10
dask10
jupyter-notebook10
jupyterhub10
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jupyterlab10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
NicWayand/WRF_srf_output
Sep 2014 - Mar 2016
Contributions:20 commits, 7 pushes, 1 issue in 1 year 6 months
NicWayand/ESIO
Dec 2017 - Feb 2019
Contributions:189 commits, 1 PR, 92 pushes in 1 year 2 months
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