Jacob Bouffard
Senior Software Engineer at Lockheed Martin
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolJacob Bouffard is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in distributed geospatial processing and data platforms, currently building geospatial processing and visualization solutions at Lockheed Martin. He has deep hands-on expertise in Scala and Python and production experience with Apache Spark, Hadoop, and AWS services like EMR and S3, having improved performance and designed libraries and APIs at Azavea. His background spans industry and research—working on data platform engineering, consulting for Bayer, and academic analyses of social media—giving him a practical appreciation for both large-scale systems and nuanced data-driven insights. Based in Philadelphia, he combines a geography and urban studies foundation with engineering rigor to tackle spatial problems from algorithm design to operational deployment.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Geography and Urban Studies, Bachelor's Degree, Geography and Urban Studies at Temple University
English
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Github Skills (72)
geographic10
high-performance10
geotrellis10
geospatial10
gis10
spark-ml9
data-processing9
prediction-model9
pyspark9
spark9
java-bindings8
openstreetmap8
python8
image-processing8
earth-observation8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
jbouffard/geotrellis-contrib
Aug 2018 - Jul 2019
GeoTrellis functionality related to the core.
Contributions:2 PRs, 128 pushes, 34 branches in 11 months
wcsgeotrelliswfsgdalgeotools
locationtech-labs/geopyspark
Dec 2016 - Dec 2024
GeoTrellis for PySpark
Contributions:15 releases, 620 PRs, 251 pushes in 8 years 1 month
geotrellispythonsparkpysparkgis
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