Mark Janikas
Product Developer at Esri
Redlands, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMark Janikas is a Product Developer with 13+ years at Esri, specializing in applied spatial analytics and the development of spatial statistics and space-time pattern mining tools. He codes primarily in Python with NumPy/Pandas and extends performance-critical components in C++, while also porting algorithms to Java and Scala to leverage Apache Spark for big-data analytics. Holding a PhD in Geography from UC Santa Barbara, he brings deep domain expertise that blends academic rigor with production-grade software engineering. Passionate about pragmatic open/closed-source integration, he focuses on matching each tool to its strengths to broaden scientific impact. Based in Redlands, CA, he uniquely combines geospatial research, algorithm design, and scalable distributed processing to move advanced spatial methods from theory into enterprise systems.
13 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Geography, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Geography at California State University-ChicoSan Diego State UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Geography, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Geography at University of California, Santa Barbara
Github Skills (9)
arcgis10
spatial-analysis10
python9
data-analysis6
visual-studio5
pysal4
r2
toolbox2
ptvs1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Esri/gis-stat-analysis-py-tutor
Mar 2013 - Jul 2018
Contains documentation and workflows that demonstrate how to leverage open-source data analysis packages within the ArcGIS Environment
Contributions:24 commits, 17 pushes in 5 years 4 months
arcgisdata-analysis
Esri/PySAL-ArcGIS-Toolbox
Nov 2013 - Jul 2019
Contributions:24 commits, 4 PRs, 20 pushes in 5 years 8 months
spatial-analysisarcgispython
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