Andrew Bell
Staff Engineer at Omron Automation
Greater Boston United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Bell is a staff engineer with three decades of experience in application and embedded software, now based in Greater Boston and focused on pragmatic fixes for troubled systems. He brings deep C++ expertise and practical interest in Rust and Go, often cutting through hype to deliver direct, maintainable solutions. Andrew excels at uniting teams to reach consensus on superior technical approaches and has a strong track record in point-cloud and LiDAR tooling—contributing build, stability, and memory-optimization improvements to well-known open-source projects like PDAL, libLAS, and Entwine. His work shows a pattern of improving build systems, reducing memory usage, and hardening core transformations, highlighting a preference for durable engineering over flashy features.
15 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Grinnell College
Github Skills (21)
algorithm10
algorithms10
c-language10
build-system10
cmake10
cplus10
cpp10
lidar10
cprogramming-language10
point-cloud10
testing9
data-structure9
pdal9
gdal9
data-structures9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
PDAL/PDAL
Jan 2013 - Sep 2022
PDAL is Point Data Abstraction Library. GDAL for point cloud data.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:18 releases, 160 reviews, 2557 commits in 9 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Andrew contributed to the development and maintenance of the PDAL library by implementing enhancements to the PLY writer, fixing core issues with the code base, and improving test coverage. The user's commits focused on fixing issues, such as those related to coordinate system transformation, by utilizing the proper functions for a better precision, and ensuring robustness by addressing potential exceptions or unexpected situations within the code. Their work improved core stability and correctness of the tool, improving the user experience.
data-abstractiongdalpdalpoint-cloud
connormanning/entwine
Dec 2018 - Jul 2019
Entwine - point cloud organization for massive datasets
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 4 PRs, 4 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily focused on build system modifications and code enhancements within the Entwine project. Their contributions included refactoring compiler options, updating build dependencies, and resolving compiler warnings. The user also addressed issues related to parsing spatial reference systems and made adjustments to integrate with external libraries like PDAL and OpenSSL. These changes suggest a focus on improving the project's build process and overall stability.
point-cloud
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