JamesĀ Colalillo
Server at UVic-GSS Graduate Students' Society
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolJames Colalillo is a geography and environmental studies graduate with 15 years of field and technical experience blending forestry practice with spatial data analysis. He has eight years working across British Columbia and Alberta in forestry roles and has translated that hands-on knowledge into cartography and mapping work for academic publications. James contributes to open-source geospatial tooling, notably improving coordinate reference system handling in the widely used rasterio library, showing a knack for back-end refactors and legacy-compatibility fixes. Currently consulting in forestry while also serving in hospitality, he balances client-facing service skills with technical consulting and cartographic production. Based in Victoria, BC, he brings practical forest stewardship insight to GIS projects and a track record of making spatial tools more robust and maintainable. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who links field realities to cleaner, more usable spatial code and maps.
15 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science - BS, Geography & Environmental Studies, Bachelor of Science - BS, Geography & Environmental Studies at University of VictoriaGlobal Business Digital Arts, Global Business Digital Arts at University of Waterloo
English, French
Github Skills (7)
gdal10
ref10
rs10
python10
raster9
cython9
gis8
Programming languages (11)
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:22 commits, 4 PRs, 2 branches in 8 days
Contributions summary:James primarily focused on refactoring and improving the codebase related to coordinate reference systems (CRS) within the rasterio library. This involved creating a dedicated CRS class, migrating existing CRS functionalities to it, and updating related tests and documentation. The user also addressed specific issues related to the rio-warp module, correcting error messages and removing unnecessary dependencies. Additionally, they contributed to the consistency of the codebase with memory management and Python 2.7 compatibility.
rasteriopythongeospatialmapbox-satellite-ossraster
pacificclimate/hydro-conductor
May 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:59 commits, 2 PRs, 28 pushes in 1 month
couplepythonglacierregionalpython-scripts
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