Parker Abercrombie
Applications Software Engineer
Pasadena, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolParker Abercrombie is an Applications Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building full-stack systems, scientific computing pipelines, and immersive 3D visualization tools for scientific users. Based in Pasadena and currently at JPL, he develops multiuser VR interfaces that help scientists explore Martian terrain and select rover targets, blending UX collaboration with advanced graphics and spatial analysis. His background spans remote sensing and GIS—he built machine-learning workflows for global land cover mapping with Markov models—and he has deep open source experience improving GeoServer’s imaging and WMS stability. Comfortable across languages and platforms from Java and C++ to Python and R, he’s equally at home optimizing network protocols, debugging browser plugins, or hardening geospatial test suites. Parker combines a scientist’s rigor with pragmatic engineering, prioritizing clean, maintainable code to turn complex spatial problems into usable tools.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at University of California, Santa BarbaraMaster of Arts (M.A.), Geography, Master of Arts (M.A.), Geography at Boston University
Github Skills (8)
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mappings10
geoserver10
javas10
wcs10
java10
testing10
junit9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
geoserver/geoserver
Aug 2014 - Oct 2014
Official GeoServer repository
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 1 comment in 1 month
Contributions summary:Parker primarily contributed to the testing and stability of the GeoServer project, particularly within the BIL (Binary Image) module. They fixed failing tests and improved the retrieval of response bodies. Additionally, the user addressed issues related to WMS 1.3.0 requests, including correcting axis order and adding a unit test. The user also modified the documentation and updated the application/bil test to match the expected length, improving the overall quality and usability of the project.
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parkerabercrombie/call-r-from-c
Mar 2014 - Jan 2022
Small example of how to call into R code from C.
Contributions:1 review, 5 commits, 1 PR in 7 years 11 months
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