Damon Burgett
Senior Software Engineer at Felt
Vashon, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolDamon Burgett is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building scalable geospatial data systems, currently crafting product at Felt from his base on Vashon Island. He previously led satellite image processing and distributed workflow design at Mapbox and served as Lead Geospatial Developer at Stamen, blending algorithmic rigor with pragmatic, production-ready engineering. Damon contributes to prominent open-source geospatial tooling—most notably enhancing rasterio’s warping CLI to safely handle NoData values—demonstrating attention to correctness, testing, and real-world data workflows. His background spans applied GIS, waterfront planning, and design, giving him a rare mix of domain expertise, visual thinking, and systems engineering. Damon is completing an MA in Geography, reinforcing a research-informed approach to building robust, scalable spatial software.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Arts (MA) - Ongoing, Geography, Master of Arts (MA) - Ongoing, Geography at San Francisco State University
Github Skills (6)
gdal10
rasterio10
python10
cli9
testing8
cython5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
rasterio/rasterio
Jun 2016 - Jun 2016
Rasterio reads and writes geospatial raster datasets
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 commits, 2 PRs, 12 pushes in 5 days
Contributions summary:Damon's contributions primarily revolve around enhancing the `rasterio/rasterio` library's functionality related to raster warping. They focused on adding and refining options for handling NoData values, specifically introducing `--src-nodata` and `--dst-nodata` parameters for the `rio warp` command. The work involved modifying the command-line interface and underlying code, including unit tests, to ensure correct behavior and prevent data overwrite during warping operations. Their work also included adding tests for the new functionality.
rasteriopythongeospatialmapbox-satellite-ossraster
mapbox/xt
Nov 2016 - Feb 2019
Automatically convert a stream of tile coordinates to another format
Contributions:1 release, 13 commits, 2 PRs in 2 years 3 months
mvttilegeofencestreamcoordinates
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