I am a cloud engineer at Development Seed where I write code to make geospatial data more accessible to all users. My educational background is in forestry and statistics, but I have spent most of the last decade honing my programming skills on the job at Development Seed and NCX (formerly SilviaTerra). My programming specialty is building clean and elegant systems for processing geospatial data.
Experience
Cloud Engineer Development Seed | May 2024 - Present
Senior Software Engineer NCX, Remote | December 2023 - May 2024
- Designed and maintained a network of live applications that serve the NCX platform
- FastAPI application that accepts requests from users via a front-end application
- several HTML/Javascript templates for serving interactive maps using MapLibre and Mapbox
- Deployed infrastructure-as-code for geospatial data processing pipelines and associated APIs using AWS CloudFormation
- PostgreSQL, EC2, Lambda, pgstac, titiler-pgstac, PostGIS, sqlalchemy
Data Engineer NCX, Remote | January 2021 - December 2023
- Built and maintained multiple pipelines for processing and organizing geospatial data:
- PostGIS-powered property assessment pipeline for assessing suitability for natural resource development and conservation projects
- NCX’s SpatioTemporal Asset Catalog (STAC)
- model training- and prediction pipeline for combining public satellite
imagery datasets and ground measurements to predict forest vegetation structure for the contiguous US - forest carbon assessment pipeline capable of concurrently processing thousands of user-submitted property boundaries
- Deployed machine learning and Bayesian statistical models in production
- Python: pytorch, fastai, tsai
- R: brms
- Distributed data products to the NCX Platform Team for consumption on NCX’s Landowner Platform
- Maintained unit testing and CI/CD for multiple Python + R packages and associated processing workflows in GitHub actions
Forest Biometrician SilviaTerra, Remote | June 2016 - December 2020
- Developed processes for generating forest inventory data using ground measurements paired with remote sensing data
- Operated and configured the cloud computing infrastucture to generate forest inventory estimates for millions of acres
- Communicated with industrial forest management companies to understand their forest inventory data needs
Education
MS Sustainable Forest Management
Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR | 2016
BS Forest Resources
University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN | 2014
