Ian Reese
Senior Spatial Infromation Officer
Queensland, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolIan Reese is a Senior Spatial Information Officer and geospatial engineer with over a decade of experience building cloud-native, high-performance pipelines for LiDAR, raster, and satellite data. He has led teams and delivered national-scale projects—hydro-corrected DEMs, COG web delivery, and riparian/shelterbelt detection—by combining Terraform-driven AWS orchestration with custom tiling and web mapping using OpenLayers/Maplibre. His background spans hands-on point cloud processing, hydrological analysis and cartography from LINZ to startups, plus practical product delivery as founder of XYCarto. Based in Queensland, he pairs a landscape-architecture MS with deep technical craft, uniquely bridging terrain science, scalable automation, and web visualization to turn complex environmental data into actionable, web-accessible assets.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Masters of Science Landscape Architecture, Masters of Science Landscape Architecture at Penn State University
Github Skills (51)
openstreetmap10
tiles10
mapbox-gl-js10
mapnik10
tilemill10
cartography10
tilesets10
map-tiles10
topojson10
map-editor10
tilemap10
tms9
spatial7
gis6
wps6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
xycarto/3D_Aotearoa
Apr 2021 - Apr 2021
Contributions:17 commits in 2 days
linz/linz_basemaps
Jan 2015 - Nov 2016
Contributions:37 commits, 7 pushes in 1 year 10 months
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