Alex Rice
Software Developer at aerialPLOT
Fruita, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolAlex Rice is a software developer with 11 years of experience specializing in GIS, remote sensing, earth observation, and data-driven agricultural and environmental applications. He has shipped production APIs, microservices, and scalable ETL pipelines for government and commercial customers, applying Python, TypeScript, and cloud-native tooling across AWS, GCP, and Azure. His work spans raster and vector geospatial systems (COGs, STAC, PostGIS, OGC APIs), multispectral imagery processing, and FMV/KLV video metadata parsing—turning scientific algorithms into reliable production services. Based in Fruita, Colorado, he pairs field-focused domain knowledge in agronomy and soil data with strong software engineering practices like static typing, CI/CD, and containerized deployments. Notably, he helped launch Radiant MLHub’s ML-for-Earth data catalog and has repeatedly modernized legacy geospatial systems into Kubernetes and API-first platforms.
12 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
Post-baccalaureate Certificate Geographic Information Science and Systems (GIS), Post-baccalaureate Certificate Geographic Information Science and Systems (GIS) at Penn State UniversityBachelor's degree Linguistic Anthropology minor in Mathematics, Bachelor's degree Linguistic Anthropology minor in Mathematics at The University of New MexicoCalifornia State University, Northridge
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
geography10
modular10
ipython10
max10
geometry10
gis10
stac10
ai10
mojo10
geospatial10
radiant10
python-client10
phylogeny10
genetic9
autocomplete9
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
guidorice/guidorice
May 2022 - Apr 2026
Contributions:28 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 11 months
guidorice/ziglings
Aug 2021 - May 2022
Learn the Zig programming language by fixing tiny broken programs.
Contributions:22 commits, 34 pushes in 9 months
programming-languagezig
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