Michael Ronquest
Software Engineer at GA-CCRi
Irvine, California, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Ronquest is a software engineer with 12 years of industry experience and a PhD from the University of Virginia, currently based in Irvine, California and working at GA-CCRi. He brings deep back-end expertise in distributed spatial data systems, having improved core GeoMesa indexing, temporal handling, and iterator performance to speed large-scale geospatial queries. His background includes postdoctoral research at Los Alamos and UNC Chapel Hill, giving him a strong research-to-production pedigree for solving complex data and algorithmic challenges. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic refactors that preserve data fidelity—evidenced by fixes to SimpleFeature user data and standardized attribute handling—while delivering measurable performance gains.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
UMBCDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) at University of Virginia
Github Skills (12)
javas10
spatial10
geo10
geospatial10
accumulo10
indexing10
indexer10
java10
spatial-data10
indexed10
scala10
geotools9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
locationtech/geomesa
Jun 2014 - Sep 2014
GeoMesa is a suite of tools for working with big geo-spatial data in a distributed fashion.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:23 commits, 14 PRs, 16 pushes in 3 months
Contributions summary:Michael focused on improving the GeoMesa core, primarily related to spatial data processing and indexing. They addressed issues in temporal field handling within the index and filter to Accumulo components. Furthermore, the user implemented performance enhancements to the iterator stack, optimizing queries by adding the IndexIterator and refactoring the SimpleFeatureFilteringIterator. The user also corrected for SimpleFeature UserData lost in IndexQueryPlanner and standardized attribute naming conventions.
geomesageospatial
ronq/geomesa
Jan 2015 - Mar 2021
Contributions:1 PR, 7 pushes, 5 branches in 6 years 3 months
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