Tobias Lunt
CTO at Development Data Lab
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTobias Lunt is a data-driven technology leader and co-founder serving as CTO of Development Data Lab, with 11 years of experience applying data science to international development and poverty alleviation. He leads multidisciplinary teams in data engineering, geospatial analysis, visualization, and analytics to extract robust causal insights from messy, large-scale datasets. His background spans The World Bank and academic research at UW–Madison, where he built bespoke parallelization tools and workflows that cut compute time by an order of magnitude. Trained in agroecology and environmental studies, Tobias combines domain expertise in food security and climate risk with practical software engineering and open-source practices. Based in Madison, WI, he brings a rare mix of field-facing development economics and production-grade data systems to tackle policy-relevant questions at scale.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Agroecology and Plant Pathology, Master's Degree, Agroecology and Plant Pathology at University of Wisconsin-MadisonBS, Environmental Studies, BS, Environmental Studies at Dartmouth College
french (intermediate), italian (intermediate)
Github Skills (13)
open-data8
redux6
react5
dashboard5
javascript5
typescript4
open-source4
replication3
district3
nextjs2
effort2
homebrew1
ruby1
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
tobylunt/tobylunt.github.io
Nov 2015 - Dec 2024
TL personal website
Contributions:46 PRs, 77 pushes, 10 branches in 9 years 2 months
react
devdatalab/rural-data-platform
Jan 2021 - Aug 2021
Contributions:61 commits, 5 pushes, 1 comment in 7 months
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