Rich Fecher
Distinguished Member Of Technical Staff at Vantor
Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRich Fecher is a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff with 12+ years designing and delivering end-to-end systems, specializing in geospatial content, visualization, and distributed computing. He has driven architecture and core backend development at organizations from startups to enterprise defense and satellite imagery firms, including a long tenure at RadiantBlue and a fellowship at Maxar Technologies. A committed open-source contributor, he implements core features and tests for GeoWave—helping enable geospatial and temporal indexing across major datastores like Cassandra and DynamoDB. Rich combines formal training (M.S. in Computer Science, GIS certificate) with practical expertise in Java-based core stores, indexes, and data access APIs. He believes small, skilled teams can produce outsized impact and repeatedly delivers production-ready solutions that bridge research and operations. Based in Virginia, he brings a rare mix of applied geospatial domain knowledge and deep systems engineering.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Geographic Information Science and Cartography, Geographic Information Science and Cartography at Penn State UniversityMaster of Science (M.S.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science at George Mason UniversityBS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at University of Virginia
Github Skills (18)
indexing10
data-structure10
java10
indexed10
javas10
junit10
indexer10
database-design10
data-structures10
cassandra9
acc9
cassandra-database9
accumulo9
maven8
api-rest4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
locationtech/geowave
Jun 2014 - Jun 2022
GeoWave provides geospatial and temporal indexing on top of Accumulo, HBase, BigTable, Cassandra, Kudu, Redis, RocksDB, and DynamoDB.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 releases, 34 reviews, 1048 commits in 8 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Rich's commits focus on implementing core functionalities of the GeoWave library, including version updates, fixing issues related to data index and Cassandra operations, and adding new features for querying and handling of various geospatial objects. The user primarily works in Java, interacting with the core store, index, and data access APIs. Furthermore, the user is responsible for adding test cases to verify the behavior of the created classes.
indexingon-tophbasekudupartitioning
rfecher/geowave
Jul 2015 - Jun 2022
GeoWave provides geospatial and temporal indexing on top of Accumulo
Contributions:2 PRs, 762 pushes, 455 branches in 7 years
geospatialaccumulogeowaveindexingh3
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