Karla King
Senior Product Manager at Planet
Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States
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Top SchoolKarla King is a Senior Product Manager with 13 years of experience building geospatial data products and analytics platforms, currently leading product at Planet. Her background as a data and backend engineer—plus early work authoring core documentation for Google Earth Engine—gives her a rare blend of hands-on technical fluency and product strategy in remote sensing, spatial analysis, and satellite imagery workflows. She has shipped data services and platform features at Descartes Labs and Corteva Agriscience, and has deep practical experience in GIS, ArcGIS, GPS, LiDAR, and multispectral image processing. Based in Santa Fe with an MS in Environmental Science, she translates environmental domain expertise into scalable cloud-native tooling that helps customers operationalize earth-observation data. Notably, she moved from field-based forestry and flight operations into product leadership, combining operational empathy with technical rigor.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS), Environmental Science, Master of Science (MS), Environmental Science at Towson UniversityBachelor of Science (BS), Geography, Bachelor of Science (BS), Geography at Salisbury UniversityProgramming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
karlaking/phase-0-weekly
Oct 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:134 PRs, 125 pushes, 27 branches in 4 months
karlaking/poverty-predictor
Sep 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:52 commits, 39 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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