Jeffrey Gerard
Software Engineer at ConservationMetrics
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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SeniorJeffrey Gerard is a technical lead and full‑stack software engineer with 13 years of experience building cloud-native, data-driven products from microservices and CI/CD pipelines to reactive web apps and production ML models. He specializes in geospatial and scientific data, NLP, search relevance, and recommender systems, and has deployed dozens of models—some human-in-the-loop—into long-running production service. A pragmatic platform architect, he brings AI and big‑data products into production on Google Cloud, AWS, and on‑prem while preserving future architectural optionality. Jeffrey advocates cross-functional product teams and coaches engineers to own components end-to-end; he’s open to mentoring technical leaders at sub‑40 person startups. An active open‑source contributor, he’s improved GeoPandas’ plotting internals to better handle diverse geometries and maintain broad compatibility, reflecting a hands‑on attention to robustness and longevity.
13 years of coding experience
Spanish, Italian, English
Github Skills (6)
pandas10
geospatial10
python10
plot10
matplotlib10
testing9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
geopandas/geopandas
Apr 2015 - Jul 2016
Python tools for geographic data
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:21 commits, 5 PRs, 57 comments in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Jeffrey primarily focused on improving the plotting functionalities within the geopandas library. They refactored the plotting code by implementing matplotlib Collections, which improved the handling of different geometry types. They also addressed several bugs, including fixing issues with color scales and ensuring proper handling of various plotting scenarios such as nonuniform geometries. Additionally, the user updated the code to maintain compatibility with older versions of matplotlib and Python.
pythongeoparquetgeospatialpandasspatial
IamJeffG/thinkpad-yoga-linux-mint
Apr 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:9 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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