Alexander Tong
Senior GIS Analyst at Clark County
Canada
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Top SchoolAlexander Tong is a Senior GIS Analyst with eight years of interdisciplinary experience applying remote sensing, spatial data science, and software development to solve complex geospatial problems. He combines a strong academic foundation (MSc in Remote Sensing/GIS) with hands-on production work automating pipelines in Python for raster/vector processing, data curation, and map/report generation within enterprise GIS environments. Alexander has contributed to international research projects and peer-reviewed publications, translating reproducible scientific workflows into practical tools and stakeholder-facing products. His practice emphasizes software engineering discipline—version control, unit testing, and design patterns—to deliver robust, maintainable geospatial applications for planning and energy-sector risk assessment. Based in Canada, he pairs curiosity-driven side interests (historical military research, geopolitics, scale modeling) with an eye for patterns in economics that inform his analytical perspective. Notably, he has scaled pixel-level Landsat time-series workflows for large comparative urban evolution studies, demonstrating both domain depth and production-grade coding skills.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Remote Sensing; GIS; Spatial Ecology, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Remote Sensing; GIS; Spatial Ecology at University of TorontoProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
alexander-tong/Landsat_SC_NBEM_LST_Retrieval
Jan 2019 - Mar 2019
Contributions:40 commits, 2 PRs, 11 pushes in 2 months
alexander-tong/Python_Miscellaneous
Aug 2017 - Jan 2019
Contributions:1 PR, 50 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 5 months
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