Evon Silvia
Corvallis, Oregon, United States
Summary
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RockstarEvon Silvia is a remote sensing and geomatics engineer with nine years of experience blending civil engineering, land surveying, sensor research, and software development to advance aerial LiDAR workflows. A dual Master's graduate in Geomatics and Civil Engineering from Oregon State University, he joined Quantum Spatial in 2011 to build high-performance LiDAR tools and codify best practices for airborne acquisition. Licensed as a professional land surveyor in OR, CA, AK, and WA, Evon brings a practitioner’s rigor to data quality and cross-disciplinary collaboration. He chairs the ASPRS LAS Working Group, influencing standards for the LiDAR community while contributing low-level improvements to widely used open-source tooling like LAStools’ LASzip. Colleagues know him for pragmatic engineering—optimizing point-data handling and compiler compatibility behind the scenes—to make complex sensor datasets more reliable and interoperable. Based in Corvallis, Oregon, he pairs field surveying insight with backend code craftsmanship to solve real-world mapping problems.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
English, German
Github Skills (5)
compatibility10
compiler10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
compile10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
LAStools/LAStools
Sep 2017 - Dec 2017
efficient tools for LiDAR processing
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:1 review, 6 commits, 6 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Evon focused on improving the LASzip library, making modifications to handle 64-bit integers, warnings for potential data mismatches, and ensuring compatibility across different compilers like MSVC2013 and GCC 4.9.2. These changes included addressing header inconsistencies, optimizing point data handling, and merging codebase updates. Furthermore, the user implemented compatibility measures and incorporated unordered map for MSVC2013.
lidar
ASPRSorg/LAS
Aug 2017 - Nov 2022
LAS Specification
Contributions:12 reviews, 213 commits, 60 PRs in 5 years 4 months
specificationlas
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