I'm a PADI Divemaster who builds production data systems, and I point a lot of that skill at the ocean. If you're an NGO or a researcher working with marine or environmental data, this is for you — come say hi. For small teams and shoestring projects, I often help for free.
OCEAN & RESEARCH
Marine side-projects
Monk-seal agent-based model
marine research
Understanding how endangered Mediterranean monk seals (Monachus monachus) use the waters off Madeira.
An agent-based model driven by real Copernicus ocean data, validated against published field studies.
Shows I can turn open ocean data into a model that stands up to scientific scrutiny.
GBIF / OBIS species-data pipeline
data at scale
A pipeline over 162M+ marine-species occurrence records (GBIF/OBIS), enriched from 16% → 83% species coverage.
Built on BigQuery, dbt, Cloud Run — running for almost nothing.
If you have observation data that's messy or huge, this is the muscle for it.
Dive & cleanup credentials
The diving isn't a hobby I keep separate — it's why the ocean work exists.
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ReefCheck certified
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Was involved in coral gardening with freestyledivers.me
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Participated in multiple debree cleanups
Underwater photography
A few frames from the work — more on Instagram at @kolm.waters
