Ryan Herring
Software Engineer at Vibrant Planet
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolRyan Herring is a software engineer focused on building data-driven systems that predict key signals from archived and real-time data, currently contributing to Apple Maps and now at Vibrant Planet. He brings a rare blend of academic rigor (Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering & Operations Research from UC Berkeley) and hands-on production experience across big data stacks like Hadoop and Spark, with fluent programming in Java, Python, and Scala. His background includes architecting the Mobile Millennium traffic information system and leading probe-data traffic research, demonstrating deep expertise in geolocated, time-varying datasets. Ryan has entrepreneurial experience co-founding a consulting firm that optimized large-scale geospatial data processing and has a track record of translating research prototypes into operational systems. Based in San Francisco, he cares about data system architecture, visualization, and building pipelines that turn sparse, noisy inputs into actionable insights. Colleagues would note his uncommon combination of transportation research pedigree and practical, production-grade systems engineering.
3 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
M.S., Industrial Engineering & Operations Research, M.S., Industrial Engineering & Operations Research at University of California, BerkeleyBachelor of Arts, Mathematics, Bachelor of Arts, Mathematics at Oberlin College
English, French
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Github Skills (9)
gdal10
gis10
rasterio10
raster10
cython10
cli10
python9
geospatial9
github1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
Vibrant-Planet/geografir
Aug 2025 - Nov 2025
A collection of Python helpers primarily targeted toward geospatial recipes
Contributions:10 reviews, 1 PR, 1 push in 2 months
rasterio/rasterio
Jul 2023 - Jun 2024
Rasterio reads and writes geospatial raster datasets
Contributions:1 review, 2 comments in 11 months
geospatialrasterrasteriopythongis
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