Glenn Pinkerton
Software Engineering at Geospatial Library Refactoring (Personal Development)
Lafayette, Colorado, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolGlenn Pinkerton is a seasoned software engineer with two decades of experience building scientific and engineering applications, currently modernizing a substantial geospatial data-processing library he originally authored. He is fluent across C, C++, Java, C#, and Python and has led large refactors—upgrading 75K lines of Java to Java 8 and converting 170K lines of C to modern C++11—while driving testing and architecture. His background includes senior roles at Konica Minolta and Microsoft, where he owned complex imaging, chart rendering, and high-throughput data-migration components. Comfortable on Linux and Windows, he combines low-level performance work with higher-level Java and database integration, and he publishes the geospatial refactor on GitHub. Based in Lafayette, Colorado, he brings a rare mix of geoscience training (MIT geology) and decades of production-grade engineering focused on robust, testable scientific software. Colleagues describe him as highly energetic and persistent about modernizing legacy systems into maintainable, well-tested codebases.
8 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Geology/Earth Science, General, Bachelor's degree, Geology/Earth Science, General at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyGithub contributions (3)
glennpinkerton/hello-world
Nov 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 3 branches in 1 day
learning-git
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.