Alex Mcvittie
Software Engineer III at Antarctic Studios
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Mcvittie is a Software Engineer III with a decade of experience building high-performance, data-driven systems across Python, Java, and cloud-native stacks. He has driven backend reliability and observability at scale using Redshift, Kafka, Flink and Snowflake, and previously advanced remote-sensing capabilities as an algorithms and image-processing engineer for Earth observation platforms and ESA’s SNAP. Comfortable spanning full-stack development, GIS and spatial analysis, Alex pairs product-minded engineering with hands-on deployment and CI/CD expertise across AWS and Azure. He also runs a professional recording studio, blending technical discipline with creative collaboration—a background that informs his pragmatic, user-focused approach to problem solving. A Waterloo graduate, he has a track record of helping early-stage teams adopt spatial data to improve decision-making and product strategies.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Environmental Studies, Geography, Bachelor of Environmental Studies, Geography at University of Waterloo
French
Github Skills (56)
earth-observation10
windows10
insar10
snap10
linux10
sar10
java10
data-processing10
macos10
data-visualization10
sentinel10
pyqgis9
satellite-data9
satellite-imagery9
earth-science8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
mcvittal/qpy3
Dec 2015 - Oct 2020
A simpler way to use the PyQGIS libraries with standalone scripting
Contributions:164 commits, 3 PRs, 128 pushes in 4 years 11 months
pyqgisscripting
antarcticstudios/antarcticstudios.github.io
Oct 2020 - Mar 2026
Contributions:2 PRs, 230 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 6 months
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