Amit Kapadia
Staff Software Engineer at Planet
Bishop, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAmit Kapadia is a Staff Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building scalable, production-grade systems for satellite imagery and geospatial applications. Based in Bishop, California, he combines applied mathematics and computational photography techniques to design numerical solvers, multigrid and spectral methods, and custom convolution pipelines that reduce cost and latency for remote-sensing products. At Planet he led efforts to move from monthly composites to daily imagery, maintained Landsat on AWS, and built neural models and data pipelines that power commercial basemaps and analytics. He is an active open-source contributor to high-profile projects like rasterio (adding band color interpretation and colormap I/O) and Mapbox GL JS (optimizing vector label placement and rendering). Amit’s background in astronomy and science communication informs a pragmatic, research-driven approach to product problems, and he often bridges low-level algorithmic work with front-end visualization needs.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Mathematics, Bachelor's degree, Mathematics at American UniversityMaster of Science - MS, Applied Mathematics, Master of Science - MS, Applied Mathematics at Florida State University
Github Skills (21)
webgl10
javascript10
shader10
python10
raster10
mapbox-gl10
gdal10
typescript10
glsl10
cython10
typescript-types10
maps10
typescripts10
maplibre-gl10
testing9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
rasterio/rasterio
Jul 2014 - Jun 2016
Rasterio reads and writes geospatial raster datasets
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:21 commits, 8 PRs, 2 pushes in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Amit primarily contributed to the implementation and enhancement of rasterio's color interpretation features. Their work involved adding support for color interpretations, writing and retrieving color interpretation data, and integrating color interpretation enums. They added the ability to read and write colormap and color interpretation for raster bands in the library. The user also updated the command line interface to include a destination CRS option, and test suite enhancements.
rasteriopythongeospatialmapbox-satellite-ossraster
mapbox/mapbox-gl-js
Feb 2015 - Feb 2015
Interactive, thoroughly customizable maps in the browser, powered by vector tiles and WebGL
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 1 PR, 7 pushes in 6 days
Contributions summary:Amit's contributions primarily focused on modifying JavaScript code related to the `mapbox-gl-js` library, as indicated by the commit messages and file changes. They made several changes related to placement calculations and the rendering of symbols, including modifying shader code and placement algorithms. The commits show refactoring and optimization efforts related to label placement and rendering, with changes to the underlying data structures used for symbol rendering.
vector-tilestilesmonorepobrowsermapbox
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