Paul Duda
Senior Project Engineer at RESPEC
Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPaul Duda is a senior project engineer and environmental planner with 20 years of experience blending watershed science, GIS, and software development to solve complex water-resource problems. He is the lead developer of HSPSquared (HSP2), a modern Python-based modernization of the Hydrological Simulation Program–Fortran (HSPF), reflecting a rare mix of domain expertise and practical coding skill. Based in Georgia, Paul has guided watershed modeling and assessment projects across consulting roles at AQUA TERRA Consultants and RESPEC, translating regulatory and planning requirements into robust modeling tools. His training in civil engineering (BSCE) and city planning (MCP, Georgia Tech) informs a systems-level approach that bridges technical modeling with planning and policy needs. Colleagues rely on him for both rigorous model development and for making legacy scientific codes accessible to contemporary data workflows.
20 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
MCP, City Planning, MCP, City Planning at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBSCE, Civil Engineering, BSCE, Civil Engineering at Bradley UniversitySt. Louis University High School
Github Skills (19)
simulation10
ecology10
sbml10
hydrology10
hydrodynamics10
water-quality10
watershed10
modeling10
python9
forge8
django5
storm5
conda-forge4
ord4
conda4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
respec/HSPsquared
Oct 2017 - Jan 2023
Hydrologic Simulation Program Python (HSPsquared)
Contributions:8 releases, 7 reviews, 166 commits in 5 years 4 months
pythonhydrologysbmlsimulationhydrodynamics
USEPA/SWMM-EPANET_User_Interface
Jan 2016 - Jun 2020
Contributions:1 review, 542 commits, 11 PRs in 4 years 5 months
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