Samuel Kogler
Founding Engineer at Earthscale
Graz, Styria, Austria
Summary
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Top SchoolSamuel Kogler is a founding engineer with 15 years of hands-on experience building scalable geospatial and AI systems, currently based in Graz, Austria. He specializes in Python-driven geospatial data processing (GDAL, rasterio, PyTorch) and has a strong background in C++11–17, with production experience spanning native code, backend services, and web applications. At blackshark.ai he helped design petabyte-scale storage, versioning, and query services for satellite raster data and led efforts to make large models and tile servers work efficiently on Kubernetes. More recently he built backend systems for mobile apps and now helps shape a startup’s technical foundation as a founding engineer. Known for digging into tricky bugs across the stack, he pairs pragmatic engineering with academic grounding from TU Graz. A less obvious strength is his blend of low-level C++ systems thinking with high-level ML pipelines, enabling robust end-to-end solutions for geospatial ML.
15 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MSc, Computer Science, Master of Science - MSc, Computer Science at Technische Universität Graz
Github Skills (174)
windows10
gdal10
cmake10
visual-studio10
coordinate-systems10
cpp10
polygons10
coordinate-transformation10
rendering10
rasterio10
tessellation10
scene10
translator10
raster10
python-interface10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
skogler/mapbox_earcut_python
Mar 2018 - Dec 2022
Python bindings to the mapbox earcut C++ library.
Contributions:7 releases, 86 commits, 7 PRs in 4 years 9 months
polygonspythonc-librarymapboxpython-bindings
skogler/vcpkg
May 2018 - May 2023
VC++ Packaging Tool
Contributions:4 pushes in 5 years 1 month
packaginglinuxpackaging-tool
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