Alex Sweeney
Geospatial Analyst
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Sweeney is an interdisciplinary geospatial analyst with eight years of experience translating climate science into actionable geospatial products for policy, mapping, and web applications. Based in Seattle, she has led data quality efforts for OpenStreetMap natural layers, wrangled climate model projections and vector datasets for visualization, and currently applies that expertise at Project Drawdown. Her background spans research roles at NASA, Columbia, and the World Bank, giving her a rare combination of scientific programming, remote sensing, and science communication skills. Comfortable with open-source tooling and Agile team leadership, she connects large, messy datasets to practical decision-making and public-facing tools. An observant fieldworker early in her career, she pairs on-the-ground ecological knowledge with advanced geospatial analysis to produce robust, user-focused solutions.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Bachelor of Science (B.S.) at Arizona State UniversityMaster of Arts (M.A.), Master of Arts (M.A.) at Columbia University in the City of New York
Github Skills (5)
openstreetmap1
summarize1
git1
atlas1
gis1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
alxswny/exploration
Oct 2021 - Aug 2023
Contributions:50 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
alxswny/data-pre-processing
Apr 2022 - Jul 2022
Contributions:84 pushes, 10 branches in 3 months
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