Backend engineer with 18 years of experience building things that work.
Lead Engineer @ Koordinates - wrangling geospatial data at scale.
I solve weird problems in the geospatial and Python ecosystems. The kind where you're reading C library source code at 2am wondering why your coordinate transformation is off by 3 meters.
I'm good at code review, which seems important in the AI era.
Expert-level understanding of:
- spatial data intricacies - [Geo]Parquet, Geopackage, Postgis, COGTiff, pointclouds, projections, the antimeridian, ...
- Python
- Docker Compose
I'm also very experienced with AI coding tools (claude code particularly), as well as building for LLMs (MCP servers, tweaks, writing skills/prompts)
I'm open to part-time contracting.
I'm especially interested in working with you if you:
- have an interesting problem in geospatial, data pipelines, or Python backend systems.
- need help increasing AI adoption in your team
- need to improve your developer tooling
I don't want to work on fintech or heavily-frontend-only work (I'm happy with full-stack though)