| TITLE | Matthew Deutsch’s Personal Website | MM 26-0000-0 |
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| AUTHOR— M. V. Deutsch | ||
| DATE— January 4, 2026 |
Hi! My name is Matthew Deutsch, and I am a Canadian mining engineer with experience in optimization, coordinate geometry, open pit mine planning, and more. In my work I primarily develop software for mining engineers and geostatisticians. In my spare time I occasionally make YouTube videos under my online alias FlibidyDibidy and run a yearly Super Mario Bros. Speedrunning Competition. This is my personal website which I use to share a subset of my professional and hobby projects.
I like optimization, engineering, and math but I also enjoy origami, video games, board games, and more. Speedrunning has always held a special place in my heart and I’ve spent a lot of my hobby / personal time on it.
I graduated from the University of Alberta with a Bachelors of Science in Mining Engineering in 2014. After about four years at Maptek I began a PhD program at the Colorado School of Mines which I completed while still developing software.
In September of 2023 I finished my PhD where I explored tools for both ultimate pit optimization with minimum mining width constraints and direct block scheduling. Currently I am working in industry but an eventual return to academia is not out of the question.
I completed two co-op work terms at Suncor during my undergrad, one in reclamation and the other in capital portfolio management. After I graduated I worked for almost a decade at Maptek starting in mid 2014. At Maptek I worked in software development and built a lot of tools for the general mine planning package Vulcan™. I did not document much of my work at this time for my personal website.
In January of 2024 I joined Resource Modeling Solutions where I have continued to develop software for mining engineers and geostatisticians. I’ve worked on a lot of fun projects during this time but written no personal website memos about any of it yet. Stay tuned I hope!