Oscar Kramer is a software development consultant and geospatial software scientist with four decades of experience designing algorithms and systems for GIS, remote sensing, photogrammetry, and image processing. He has led R&D and engineering teams to accelerate geospatial workloads on heterogeneous hardware (FPGA, GPU, SoC, CPU) and productionized cloud-native services using Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS. A long-standing contributor and co-founder of the OSSIM open-source geospatial library, he combines deep C++/Java systems expertise with modern AI and machine-vision methods to solve hard analytical problems. His career includes senior roles at Maxar/DigitalGlobe and leadership at startups delivering FPGA- and GPU-accelerated pipelines for edge and cloud deployments. Based in Miami Beach, he pairs rigorous mathematical sensor modeling and 3-D image processing with practical experience in CI/CD and cluster architecture—plus an adventurous streak evidenced by a multi-year sailing sabbatical that sharpened his independent problem-solving.
11 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Physics, BS, Physics at Florida Institute of Technology
High School, High School at Belen Jesuit Preparatory School
Core OSSIM (Open Source Software Image Map) package including C++ code for OSSIM library, command-line applications, tests, and build system
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:4 reviews, 105 commits, 77 PRs in 6 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Oscar primarily contributed to the OSSIM project by modifying and updating existing setup scripts and core C++ code, specifically concerning file configurations and the base geometry of image data structures. Their commits included updates to setup scripts, correction of comments, and refactoring in core files like `ossimIrect64.cpp` and `ossimRectilinearDataObject.cpp`. These changes indicate a focus on improving the project's build process, internal data structures and core image processing capabilities.
Contributions:24 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 9 months
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Oscar Kramer - Software Development Consultant at KramerAnalytic