Tim Cera
Owner at Engineering and Computing Solutions, LLC
Gainesville, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTim Cera is a Florida-licensed professional engineer and owner with 14+ years of practical leadership in hydrodynamic, hydrologic, and meteorologic modeling and data systems. He has led multidisciplinary teams building large HSPF, SWMM, EFDC and CH3D models for regional water-supply and watershed studies, and authored key analyses for the St. Johns River Water Management District that informed National Academy review. A seasoned programmer, Tim develops and publishes open-source tooling (tstoolbox, mettoolbox, tsgettoolbox, swmmtoolbox, hspfbintoolbox, TAPPy) to automate preprocessing, analysis, and Monte Carlo workflows and has contributed statistical distributions to SciPy. He also designed and managed a Linux high-performance cluster to support computationally intensive simulations and continues to work with NOAA/NWS on the National Blend of Models. Known for pulling general-purpose numerical routines back into mainstream libraries (elements of his work influenced numpy.pad), he blends domain expertise with pragmatic software engineering to speed modeling productivity. Based in Gainesville, FL, he pairs field experience and academic training (M.S. Agricultural Engineering, University of Florida) with a long track record of reproducible, open scientific software.
14 years of coding experience
31 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science in Engineering Civil - Soil and Water, Bachelor of Science in Engineering Civil - Soil and Water at University of Central FloridaYoungstown State UniversityMaster of Science in Engineering Agricultural Engineering - Soil and Water, Master of Science in Engineering Agricultural Engineering - Soil and Water at University of Florida
Github Skills (9)
algorithms10
scipy10
python10
stat10
distributions10
scientific-computing10
statistic10
numpy9
testing9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
scipy/scipy
Oct 2012 - Jun 2016
SciPy library main repository
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer / Data Scientist
Back-end Developer / Data ScientistContributions:9 commits, 4 PRs, 27 comments in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Tim primarily contributed to the `scipy/scipy` repository by implementing and improving statistical distributions. Their work focused on adding the Pearson Type III distribution, including its implementation, testing, and optimization. Further contributions involved refactoring and enhancing the existing code for the Pearson Type III distribution by incorporating gamma distribution functions, and correcting kurtosis calculations.
scipypythonscientific-computing
timcera/toolbox_utils
Aug 2022 - Dec 2024
Contributions:1 PR, 66 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 4 months
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