Working with brilliant people to build at the intersection of data-science, technology and environment. A few examples: - https:/climatetrace.org : Al Gore's effort to track emissions and emitters worldwide. Data pipelines, infrastructure, APIs, design and web. - https://globalplasticwatch.org : Tracking plastic waste globally through multi-spectral ML. Data pipelines, Machine Learning, APIs, Design and web.- https://amazonminingwatch.org : Tracking illegal mining in the Amazon with machine learning. Machine Learning and Design- https://earth-index.earthgenome.org : Making the earth's change searchable across space and time. Data pipelines, infrastructure, ML, Vector Databases

Overseeing all aspects of customer success including data delivery, on site support and customengineering for over $35M worth of contracts across the US Federal government.

Overseeing the transition of Boundless as it becomes Planet Federal, a wholly owned subsidiary of Planet Labs.

Boundless provides open source geospatial software products, support and services to a wide range of commercial and governmental customers. Boundless was acquired in March of 2019 and is now Planet FederalI'm responsible for all technical decisions and strategic direction for internal and customer facing product and tech.Managing budgets, running R&D teams, export control (EAR/ITAR), IT operations, and engaging with high profile customers. Burning passion to have the organization lead open source instead of simply contributing.Tags:Geospatial web services, Java, Python, Micro-services, light agile, SAAS / FAAS, Docker, Kuberenetes (on AWS/C2S, GCE, Azure, PCF), Golang, Istio, PyTorch, API, Routing, Imagery Segmentation, Machine Learning, CI/CD

Responsible for product and engineering roadmaps and their execution across all teams. Worked closely with sales and professional services to identify synergies and complementary client requirements to fund and accelerate development. Managed all engineering, support and training activities.Most proud of ditching installers for containers and the cloud. Listening to customers, then leading them to what they want, not what they asked for. Tags: Decomposing monoliths, Leadership, Spring boot, Product focus, SAAS, subscription management

Directed all professional services work with US Federal and International government customers, including NGA, In-Q-Tel, NOAA, National Weather Service, Japanese Ministry of Defense and others. Major focus on the adoption, understanding and customization of open source software in secure settings.Tags: Security, GeoServer, Professional Services, FOSS Customization, DoD/IC, JMoD, Scaling, High Availability, RHEL, VMWare

Lead Architect - Integrated Disability Evaluation System: Served as the lead architect assisting Army CIO in efforts to address high visibility problems with the Integrated Disability Evaluation System. Technical Lead – Quick Data Analyzer: Led technical team in the design, development and deployment of a web application providing on demand analytics, reporting and alerting to Army analystsImplemented web services using Spring-WS, Spring Security, Hibernate, and Oracle Analytics Lead Developer – Project Mercury: Designed and developed high throughput web service interface for ingesting high frequency (10K/sec) reports using Spring Web Services, Spring Data and MongoDBDeveloped analytical web services using a mix of in memory event processing, map reduce and traditional queries

SensorWeb Technical Lead Provided technical direction and coordinated tasking for a team of 10-15 geographically diverse developers in support of numerous Department of Defense and Intelligence Community customers. Developed a suite of web services, clients, and utilities to enable the discovery, ingestion, dissemination tasking and processing of large scale, high velocity sensor data