Kevin Thompson
Engineering Manager at TELUS Agriculture & Consumer Goods
Clovis, California, United States
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Top SchoolKevin Thompson is an engineering manager with 17 years of hands-on software experience who has progressed from VB3 to modern stacks including C#, Java, Scala, Ruby, and JavaScript. He combines practical backend expertise—evidenced by contributions to the GeoTrellis geospatial library optimizing data loading and raster processing—with a track record of shipping enterprise software for surveillance, agriculture, and SaaS domains. Known as a pragmatic problem solver, he quickly digs into complex systems to fix critical bugs and improve efficiency while mentoring engineers and fostering continual improvement. Based in Clovis, CA, he balances leadership with active coding, preferring to lead by example and tackle thorny data-handling challenges that others often avoid.
18 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
AAS Information Technology, AAS Information Technology at Heald College
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (15)
scala10
rasterize10
raster10
data-streaming9
aws-s38
s3-bucket8
amazon-s38
spark7
debugging6
git6
linker6
assembly6
vite6
visual-studio6
vitest6
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
locationtech/geotrellis
Mar 2017 - Oct 2020
GeoTrellis is a geographic data processing engine for high performance applications.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 9 PRs, 9 comments in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Kevin primarily focused on improving the GeoTrellis library by fixing bugs and optimizing existing code. They addressed issues related to data loading and processing, specifically resolving premature data loading in `StreamingByteReader`. Further contributions involved enhancing the `HttpRangeReader` and `LazySegmentBytes` to improve data handling efficiency. Additionally, the user made changes to the raster cropping functionality and removed an unused allocation.
geotrellis
kthompson/gitty_old
Jul 2008 - Dec 2008
Contributions:26 commits in 5 months
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