Ben Scholer
Sr. Geospatial Software Engineer
Bend, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Scholer is a senior geospatial software engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building precise, production-grade mapping and GNSS processing systems. Based in Bend, Oregon, he currently leads efforts at DroneDeploy to enable centimeter-level RTK/PPK accuracy and to modernize datum handling across large-scale processing pipelines using PROJ, GDAL, and other open-source GIS tools. He combines backend engineering, AWS and CI/CD practices with a practical operator’s perspective from founding a UAV mapping company and participating in government drone test programs. Known for thoughtful design and durable code, Ben also builds internal tooling to streamline engineering and support workflows and pursues hardware tinkering—drones, 3D printers, and over-engineered home automation—that fuels his creative problem-solving.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Information Technology; Minor in Professional Writing, 3.00, Bachelor's degree, Computer Information Technology; Minor in Professional Writing, 3.00 at Purdue UniversityAcademic Honors Diploma (Graduation GPA - 3.9), Graduated, Academic Honors Diploma (Graduation GPA - 3.9), Graduated at Carmel High School
English, Spanish
Github Skills (149)
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
lthiamodelers/IWMI-Refresh
Mar 2017 - Dec 2021
A rewrite of http://inwater.agriculture.purdue.edu/monitoring/.
Contributions:1 PR, 79 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 9 months
purdueagriculturerewritemonitoringedu
bscholer/dotfiles
Nov 2016 - Jan 2025
My personal zsh and vim dotfiles, and an installer script to install them.
Contributions:5 PRs, 108 pushes, 6 branches in 8 years 4 months
dotfilesvimzshzshrc
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