Corey White
Founder And CEO at OpenPlains Inc
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCorey White is a founder and CEO with 13+ years building geospatial software, research platforms, and cloud-native systems that translate complex environmental models into usable community tools. He blends deep GIS expertise and a PhD in Geospatial Analytics with hands-on engineering across frontend, backend, mobile, DevOps, and DBAs—having architected production AWS VPCs, containerized ECS stacks, and a Scala/AngularJS dashboard at JouleBug. As Applied Research Scientist and instructor at NC State, he leads GRASS GIS ecosystem customer discovery and develops participatory modeling tools (OpenPlains/TomorrowNow) that couple hydrologic simulation with stakeholder engagement. Comfortable moving between field data collection, high-performance spatial analysis, and product leadership, he’s as likely to mentor students and run workshops as he is to ship a microservice. Outside work he applies the same systems thinking to outdoor adventures, from backpacking to mountain biking.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Geospatial Analytics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Geospatial Analytics at North Carolina State UniversityBachelor of Arts - BA, Sociology and Anthropology, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Sociology and Anthropology at Warren Wilson College
Github Skills (77)
python10
image-processing10
wps10
gdal10
grass10
geodata10
parallel-computing10
spatial10
osgeo10
geographic10
science10
system-information10
open-science10
raster10
data-science10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
OpenPlainsInc/grass-js-client
May 2022 - Feb 2025
grass-js-client is an API to develop javascript apps with django-actinia or Actinia APIs.
Contributions:3 releases, 1 PR, 46 pushes in 2 years 9 months
actiniageospatialgrass-gisrest-api
cwhite911/grass
May 2020 - Apr 2025
GRASS GIS Core Repository
Contributions:242 pushes, 31 branches in 4 years 11 months
geospatialgrassgeospatial-analysisgisgrass-gis
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