Christopher Brown
Director Of Software Development Engineering at Umbra
Greater Pittsburgh Region United States
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Top SchoolChristopher Brown is a software engineering leader and staff-level individual contributor with 13 years of experience, currently serving as Director of Software Development Engineering at Umbra. He blends hands-on technical acumen in GIS, remote sensing, and synthetic aperture radar with the strategic oversight required to scale teams and production systems. Based in the Greater Pittsburgh region, he has steered cross-disciplinary engineering efforts in aerospace-adjacent domains where signal processing and software meet hardware constraints. Trained originally in political science, he brings an uncommon mix of analytical rigor and stakeholder diplomacy to technical decision-making and product strategy. Known for translating complex remote-sensing requirements into operational software, he excels at aligning research-grade algorithms with robust, deployable systems. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic leadership that balances innovation with delivery.
13 years of coding experience
Bachelor's degree, Political Science and Government, Bachelor's degree, Political Science and Government at Penn State Erie, The Behrend CollegePolitical Science and Government, Political Science and Government at University of Pennsylvania
Github Skills (144)
web-application10
stac10
specification10
catalog10
geographic10
api10
data-processing10
high-performance10
foundry10
geotrellis10
raster10
classification10
earth-observation10
satellite-imagery10
searchable10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
raster-foundry/mini-apps
Aug 2017 - Oct 2017
Self-contained Raster Foundry applications that use the API and tile servers.
Contributions:25 commits, 28 PRs, 34 pushes in 1 month
apifoundryself-containedrastertile
notthatbreezy/geotrellis
Feb 2015 - Feb 2020
GeoTrellis is a geographic data processing engine for high performance applications.
Contributions:25 pushes, 15 branches in 5 years
wcsgeotrelliswpsgeospatialdata-processing
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