Past Roles

I have had several professional software positions with: the NASA Student Airborne Research Program (SARP), Development Seed, and Maxar Technologies (recently acquired and renamed Vantor). A few of my favorite engineering projects and my roles in them are listed below.


Highlighted Projects

Project Roles Organization
NASA Commercial Satellite Data Acquisition Program Data Explorer Backend design, Backed implementation, Data pipeline design & implementation Development Seed
NASA Catalog of Archived Suborbital Earth Science Investigations Search Interface (CASEI) Project management, User research & Design support, Administrator UI implementation Development Seed
OpenAQ Low Cost Sensor Dashboard Project management, API implementation Development Seed
AIS Ship Tracking Database Database design, Database implementation Maxar
Vector Information Product Enhancer – Building Heights Algorithm development, Data engineering Maxar

Top Technologies

Python, Docker, AWS Cloud, git/Github, postgreSQL/postGIS, FastAPI, Bash/shell, Linux, QGIS, GDAL

Top Python Libraries

xarray, pandas, geopandas, rasterio, pyproj, shapely, fastapi, requests, aws-cdk

Top Data Formats

netCDF, HDF, GeoTIFF, Cloud-Optimized GeoTIFF, Zarr, Geoparquet, CSV/TSV, Icartt

Software-Specific Presentations

Wegener, R. (2020, July 14) STAC and Cloud-Optimized Data: Publicly Accessible COGs for Web Data Exploration. Earth Systems Information Partners (ESIP) Summer Meeting, 10 minute oral session