Mike Johnson
Chief Data Scientist
Fort Collins, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMike Johnson is a Chief Data Scientist and geospatial leader with eight years of experience building data-driven hydroinformatics and open-source hydrofabric solutions for federal water modeling. He has led NOAA’s Next Generation National Water Model hydrofabric development and coordinated multi-agency efforts with USGS to define standardized federal hydroinformatics products. Combining a PhD in Geography with hands-on software and data engineering, he bridges computational geography, water resources research, and production-ready open-source tooling. Mike teaches and mentors as affiliated faculty at Colorado State University and serves on graduate committees, keeping one foot in academia and the other in operational science. Known for translating complex hydrologic science into reproducible software and datasets, he’s especially skilled at scaling geospatial data pipelines for national-scale modeling. Based in Fort Collins, he actively seeks collaborative partnerships that turn research into actionable water-resource solutions.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis ObispoDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Geography, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Geography at UC Santa Barbara
Github Skills (94)
describe10
gdal10
mapping-tools10
mappings10
hydrology10
geography10
spatial10
react-leaflet10
r10
water10
ckan10
noaa10
maps10
soil10
r-package10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
mikejohnson51/zonal
Jun 2021 - Jun 2022
Fast, accurate zonal statistics for "big" categorical and continuous data
Contributions:85 commits, 4 PRs, 72 pushes in 11 months
statisticsgeospatialgridded-datanoaa-owpsummary-stats
mikejohnson51/mikejohnson51
Dec 2020 - Apr 2025
Contributions:101 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 4 months
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