Curriculum Vitae
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Lewis R. Blake, PhD
Senior Software Developer
Education
- Ph.D. in Statistics, 2021 — Colorado School of Mines
- Thesis: Enabling Massive Spatial Data Analysis
- Developed scalable statistical methods for analyzing hundreds-of-millions of spatial observations
M.Sc. in Statistics, 2018 — Colorado School of Mines
- B.A. in Mathematics, 2016 — Hampshire College
Experience
Senior Software Developer | Statkraft | Oct 2025 - Present
- Built the ETL pipeline for large volumes of spatio-temporal data underpinning Statkraft’s flagship long-term energy market model — internally described as the most significant change to the platform in fifteen years
- Reduced production incidents from multiple per week to near zero ahead of a major launch, through a Kubernetes health-check redesign and new observability infrastructure
- Delivered the team’s first Kubernetes-based test environment using Kustomize, closing a gap that had constrained testing for years
Researcher / Computational Scientist | Norwegian Meteorological Institute | Mar 2022 - Sep 2025
- Led development of pyaerocom, a Python package for climate and air quality model evaluation used throughout NMI’s research and operations
- Led development of machine learning models for air quality forecasting and uncertainty quantification methods for chemical transport models
- Advanced pollution deposition modeling for Norway and air pollution modeling for the Netherlands using ML-based data fusion techniques
Ph.D. Researcher | Colorado School of Mines & NCAR | 2017 - 2021
- Created parallel computing algorithms reducing computation time by 75% for massive datasets
- Analyzed geospatial satellite data on HPC systems (hundreds-of-millions of observations)
- Published scalable methods for spatial statistical analysis
Key Skills
Programming: Python, R, C++, SQL, Bash
ML/Data Science: scikit-learn, TensorFlow, PyTorch, time series analysis
Infrastructure: Git, CI/CD, Kubernetes, HPC/parallel computing