Patrick Cozzi
Chief Platform Officer
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top expert inGeospatial Technology and Web Mapping
Patrick Cozzi is a technology executive, entrepreneur, and open-source founder with 14 years of professional experience building and scaling 3D geospatial platforms. As Founder & CEO of Cesium and now Chief Platform Officer at Bentley Systems, he blends product leadership with deep technical expertise in WebGL, glTF, and large-scale 3D asset pipelines. He is a hands-on contributor to prominent projects like KhronosGroup/glTF and Cesium’s own tooling, improving runtimes, asset optimization, and image handling for high-performance web visualization. A frequent standards and industry contributor, he co-chairs 3D asset interoperability at the Metaverse Standards Forum and serves on multiple boards advancing geospatial and tech diplomacy. Patrick also teaches and advises—bringing academic lecturing experience from the University of Pennsylvania and executive education from Harvard Business School to his pragmatic, platform-first approach. Colleagues know him for shipping robust, performance-sensitive graphics systems while simultaneously shaping open standards that make those systems interoperable.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Penn State UniversityCertificate of Management Excellence, Certificate of Management Excellence at Harvard Business School Executive EducationMSE Computer and Information Science, MSE Computer and Information Science at University of Pennsylvania
Github Skills (23)
webgl10
javascript10
3d-graphics10
integrate10
gltf10
shader10
integrations10
3d-models10
data-integration10
convert9
image-processing9
converter9
testing9
resource-management9
3d9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
KhronosGroup/glTF
Nov 2012 - Jul 2020
glTF – Runtime 3D Asset Delivery
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:9 reviews, 1160 commits, 551 PRs in 7 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Patrick primarily focused on enhancing the glTF runtime 3D asset delivery project by modifying JavaScript files related to webgl, specifically concerning resource management. They cleaned up code, fixed paths in a dummy example, added missing shaders, cleaned up whitespace, and fixed a malformed HTTP request header. In addition, they added a .gitignore for CMake output, removed duplicate function, and added handleImage to the dummy loader.
3d-modelswebglruntimeplaycanvascollada
CesiumGS/cesium
Mar 2012 - Dec 2019
An open-source JavaScript library for world-class 3D globes and maps :earth_americas:
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 4677 commits, 898 PRs in 7 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Patrick implemented features related to image handling and processing within the Cesium JavaScript library. Their work focused on the performance and functionality of handling images. The user modified core components and file handling mechanisms.
3d-globegltfjavascript-librarygeospatial3d-tiles
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