Lucian Plesea
Developer at Esri
Redlands, California, United States
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Top SchoolLucian Plesea is a developer with 12+ years building high-performance image and tile server systems, currently shaping Esri’s basemap services and cloud raster proxies. He designed and authored the Meta Raster Format (MRF) used to accelerate dynamic imagery at scale and contributes significant back-end fixes and features to the widely used GDAL library. Previously he built NASA’s GIBS/OnEarth infrastructure at JPL, combining scientific HPC and satellite image processing expertise with production web map services. His background in applied optics (PhD) and applied electronics gives him deep domain knowledge for tackling massive, high-resolution mosaics—he once tackled concepts for a 3.2 petapixel Mars mosaic. Based in Redlands, CA, he’s drawn to “crazy large” datasets that require elegant, efficient I/O and compression solutions. Colleagues rely on him for system architecture, QA tooling for tile caches, and practical innovations that bridge research and operational mapping services.
12 years of coding experience
POLITEHNICA București National University for Science and TechnologyPhD, Physics, Applied Optics, PhD, Physics, Applied Optics at University of Kent
English, Romanian, Spanish
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Github Skills (6)
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c-language10
cprogramming-language10
image-processing9
data-structure9
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
OSGeo/gdal
Feb 2016 - Jun 2022
GDAL is an open source MIT licensed translator library for raster and vector geospatial data formats.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:17 reviews, 153 commits, 53 PRs in 6 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Lucian contributed to the GDAL library by modifying code related to the Meta Raster Format (MRF) and Lempel-Ziv Welch (LERC) compression. The changes involved correcting formulas for bitmask sizes, generating Huffman canonical codes, matching LERC names, and using integer types instead of long integers. The user also made improvements to the MRF tile format, added support for open options, and implemented features for reading and writing.
licensedrasteriogeospatialrasterdata-formats
lucianpls/libahtse
Apr 2019 - May 2022
AHTSE utility library
Contributions:134 commits, 10 PRs, 122 pushes in 3 years 1 month
furryutility-library
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