Nick Weir
Vice President, Mission Engineering at Legion Intelligence
Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolNick Weir is a mission-focused AI leader and VP of Mission Engineering with a PhD in Biochemistry and a decade of experience applying machine learning to high-stakes domains like federal systems, geospatial imagery, healthcare, and cybersecurity. He has led delivery of agentic AI systems into production and built software and challenge infrastructure for overhead imagery (SpaceNet), blending deep scientific rigor with product-oriented ML engineering. His career bridges academic microscopy and genomics research at Harvard with public-sector ML practice at AWS and In-Q-Tel, making him adept at turning complex research into operational solutions. Known for founding Solaris and managing SpaceNet challenges, he brings uncommon expertise in computer vision for overhead imagery alongside LLMs and generative AI. Based in Virginia, he emphasizes collaboration, cost-effective delivery, and accelerating client outcomes through pragmatic use of cutting-edge ML.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Biochemistry, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Biochemistry at Harvard UniversityBachelor of Arts - BA, Cell/Cellular and Molecular Biology, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Cell/Cellular and Molecular Biology at Dartmouth College
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Github Skills (49)
earth-observation10
preprocessing10
asset-catalog10
python10
image-processing10
satellite-imagery10
machine-learning10
conda10
geospatial10
geo10
gis10
conda-forge9
solaris9
segmentation9
rasterio9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
CosmiQ/cw-nets
Jan 2019 - Jul 2019
cw-nets: built for inference against large scale geotiffs
Contributions:30 commits, 24 PRs, 31 pushes in 5 months
inference
CosmiQ/cw-tiler
Dec 2018 - Jul 2019
cw-tiler built for tiling large geotiffs for SpaceNet
Contributions:1 release, 19 commits, 2 PRs in 6 months
tilertilinggeospatialgis
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