Anthony Fox
Chief Technology Officer at General Atomics Integrated Intelligence
Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolAnthony Fox is a seasoned technology leader and CTO with 13 years of experience building distributed, data-driven systems from the lab to production, now based in Charlottesville, VA. He has a strong background in geospatial analytics and systems architecture, leading teams at General Atomics and GA-CCRi to deliver predictive analytics and enterprise-grade software. A hands-on engineer by training, Anthony has contributed to open-source GeoMesa—improving spatial indexing, query predicates, caching, and HBase compression—to scale big geospatial data workflows. He pairs a Masters in Systems Engineering (Computational Statistics) with deep practical experience across Java, C#, and C++ platforms, bridging research-grade algorithms and operational systems. Known for translating complex spatial problems into performant, maintainable architectures, he thrives at the intersection of data science, systems engineering, and mission-focused product delivery.
13 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Masters Systems Engineering: Computational Statistics Group, Masters Systems Engineering: Computational Statistics Group at University of Virginia
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Github Skills (18)
hbase10
geotools10
query-optimization10
indexing10
java10
spatial-data10
data-storage10
javas10
data-pipelines9
data-pipeline9
jpa6
hibernate6
subarray6
slice6
plot6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
locationtech/geomesa
Sep 2013 - Apr 2018
GeoMesa is a suite of tools for working with big geo-spatial data in a distributed fashion.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:101 commits, 225 PRs, 512 pushes in 4 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Anthony focused on refactoring and improving the GeoMesa codebase, specifically dealing with spatial data indexing and querying. Their work included refactoring the index to use `SimpleFeature` throughout, and implementing support for various query predicates like `DWithin` and string-based comparisons. Furthermore, the user enhanced the system by supporting features such as caching data and enabling compression for HBase tables, and they also made improvements to the internal handling of SimpleFeatures for overall performance.
geomesageo-spatialgeospatialkuduaccumulo
geomesa/sfcurve
Dec 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:11 pushes, 4 branches in 1 month
transformationfunctional-programmingqueryingscala-libraryscalajs
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