Zac Flamig
Director Of Climate Sciences
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolZac Flamig is a climate sciences director and Earth scientist with nine years of applied experience building operational flood forecasting systems and data platforms used by the U.S. National Weather Service and NASA. He pioneered NMQ-FLASH, a distributed hydrologic modeling framework for flash flood prediction, and has deep microwave remote sensing expertise—down to how 10 cm radio waves scatter from raindrops, hail, birds and foliage. Zac blends research, product and cloud engineering, having led environmental data commons at the University of Chicago, driven AWS’s meteorology-focused Open Data efforts, and contributed reliability improvements to a high-profile AWS open-data registry. He founded WeatherWary to deliver consumer weather apps across Apple platforms and has supported Amazon operations with meteorological data science and tooling. Comfortable bridging academic rigor and production systems, he also brings field experience training model deployments internationally in Africa. Based in the New York City area, he combines hands-on development, program leadership, and a knack for turning complex observational science into operational impact.
9 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Meteorology, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Meteorology at University of Oklahoma
Github Skills (12)
cloud-infrastructure10
aws10
python10
http-request10
error-handling9
bash8
script8
yaml8
githubaction-workflow7
devops7
github-ci7
rest-api7
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
awslabs/open-data-registry
Jul 2019 - Jan 2022
A registry of publicly available datasets on AWS
Role in this project:
Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure Engineer
Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure EngineerContributions:18 reviews, 162 commits, 346 PRs in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Zac primarily focused on improving the reliability and robustness of the AWS open-data-registry. Their commits involved enhancing the system's fault tolerance through retry mechanisms when retrieving bucket region information. They also implemented validation checks to ensure data integrity, such as enforcing lowercase filenames and verifying bucket region consistency. Additionally, the user added logging and debugging improvements to aid in troubleshooting.
datasetsaws
awslabs/amazon-asdi
Nov 2019 - Sep 2022
Docs and supporting material for the Amazon Sustainability Data Initiative.
Contributions:21 commits, 32 PRs, 53 pushes in 2 years 10 months
cost-optimizationdataathenaemramazon
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