Summary
Charlie Loyd is a data-focused software engineer with 13 years of experience turning complex geospatial and imagery datasets into practical tools and insights. Based in Oakland, he has driven large-scale imagery work at Mapbox—building terapixel-scale algorithms that blend optical physics, computer vision, and human color perception to improve basemaps—and later consulted on strategic geospatial projects at Stamen. He excels at tracing real-world problems to their root causes, designing experiments and systems that are both scientifically grounded and operationally scalable. Comfortable across technical, customer, and communications roles, he has a track record of explaining sophisticated processing choices to nontechnical audiences. His Github interests—“pixels, geography, and combinations thereof”—reflect a creative focus on the intersection of maps and visual data.
13 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer