Karl Velasco

Karl is an Associate Water Resources Engineer at SMEC with 12 years’ experience specialising in hydrology, flood modelling and WSUD design. Karl holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Civil) (Hons) and is a registered member (NER) of Engineers Australia. He previously worked at Melbourne Water in Development Services before moving to SMEC Water and Dams team. Karl has been responsible for a wide range of technical engineering roles in Victoria (and overseas) involving catchment strategy development, dam break modelling and consequence assessments, concept and detailed design of stormwater assets, flood modelling for major infrastructures project, and construction supervision roles. As a long-time member of Stormwater Victoria, he is keen to get more involved in the wider stormwater industry and try to advocate for the engineering practitioners in urban and major infrastructure space. Karl became an engineer to apply his analytical skills for the betterment of the wider community.

Involved in:

• Mastering probable maximum precipitation estimates in a changing climate (May 2025)