Lachlan Hurst
Spatial Development Lead Full Stack Developer
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolLachlan Hurst is a Spatial Development Lead and full-stack developer based in Melbourne with 13 years’ experience delivering geospatial, engineering and consumer-facing software. He blends deep technical chops—from Metal GPU shaders and iOS app development to Java/.NET backend systems—with domain expertise in Earth observation, CAE and HPC-derived workflows. At FrontierSI he leads spatial development efforts, and previously founded ObservedEarth, an app that streams and processes petabytes of Landsat data on-device using Cloud-Optimized GeoTIFFs and GPU compute. Comfortable moving between research and product engineering, he has a track record of turning heavyweight scientific processes into efficient, user-friendly tools. He also keeps skills sharp through solo projects and tinkering with hardware, FEM tools and mobile experiences.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate IV, Project Management, Certificate IV, Project Management at Swinburne University of TechnologyBachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Computer Science at RMIT University
Stackoverflow
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42answers
2questions
shader
top-5%
scenekit
top-1%
Github Skills (42)
scenekit10
shader9
quality-assurance9
offscreen9
compute-shader9
planning9
scene9
texture8
geo8
render8
mesh7
opengl-es6
tile-cache6
swift6
metal6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ausseabed/ausseabed-k8s-infra
Dec 2019 - Jun 2024
Contributions:1 PR, 29 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 6 months
ausseabed/mate
Mar 2020 - Mar 2023
Multibeam Acquisition and Tracking Evaluator
Contributions:45 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years
multibeamtrackingacquisitionjavaevaluator
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