Ryan Mccarthy
Senior Software Engineer at Planet
Golden, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan Mccarthy is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience applying an MS/BS in Applied Mathematics to build efficient, production-grade software for terabyte-scale geospatial and scientific data. He combines strong numerical modeling instincts with hands-on systems programming in Python, C/C++, and Linux to deliver distributed computing solutions and ML-enabled classification features. His career spans scientific programming and geospatial engineering roles at Weyerhaeuser, Salo Sciences, and Planet, where he focuses on making large-volume data manageable and actionable. Comfortable working independently or in teams, he’s a command-line enthusiast who pragmatically bridges academic rigor and production engineering. An uncommon strength is his ability to translate mathematical models into scalable tooling that integrates with real-world data pipelines.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's, Bachelor's at University of Colorado at Boulder
Github Skills (200)
laspy10
python10
gdal10
cython10
satellite10
mercator10
javascript10
bokeh10
pandas10
geographic10
rasterio10
cli10
ogr10
jupyter10
raster10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
mccarthyryanc/busylight
Dec 2017 - Jun 2020
Simple Python CLI tool to interact with a Kuando BusyLight
Contributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 9 pushes in 2 years 6 months
clipython
mccarthyryanc/folium_gee
Nov 2016 - Nov 2018
Contributions:7 commits, 6 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 11 months
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