Christopher Helm
Head Of Data Engineering
Salida, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Helm is a Head of Data Engineering with 15 years of experience building geospatial data platforms, 3D visualizations, machine learning infrastructure, and computer vision pipelines across companies from startups to major industry players. He co-founded a geospatial startup, led ML platform efforts for satellite imagery at DigitalGlobe, and recently augmented spatial systems at Snap before stepping into his current leadership role at Remedy Robotics. A full-stack geospatial engineer by training, he blends front-end polish (contributions to Esri’s public GitHub landing page) with back-end optimizations in core geo toolkits like terraformer. Based in Salida, Colorado, he pairs a practical, hands-on developer ethos with a deep passion for spatial visualization and pragmatic system design that accelerates data-driven decision making.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
MA Geography, MA Geography at University of Colorado Boulder
Github Skills (11)
html10
css10
data-storage10
web-development-project10
javascript10
bootstra10
web-development10
bootstrap10
geojson8
github7
testing7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Esri/terraformer
Aug 2013 - Oct 2013
A geographic toolkit for dealing with geometry, geography, formats, and building geo databases
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:19 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Christopher's contributions primarily focused on refactoring and optimizing the `terraformer` project's data storage mechanisms. They removed "deferred" functionalities from various store implementations, including memory and local storage, and the GeoStore class, aiming for a more streamlined and potentially synchronous operation. The changes involved modifications to core methods like `add`, `remove`, `get`, and `update` within different storage components. The user also updated the `geostoreSpec.js` test files, removing the previously used "deferred" references.
geographicdata-managementgeospatialgeographyarcgis
Esri/esri.github.io
Aug 2012 - Nov 2012
Esri GitHub landing page
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Christopher primarily focused on front-end development within the Esri GitHub landing page repository. Their contributions involved implementing the initial index page, incorporating the Bootstrap CSS framework, and iteratively updating the index page's layout and content. They also made modifications to the assets, updating the index.html and bootstrap files to refine the visual presentation and functionality of the site.
acetatecssjavascriptesriweb-development
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