Thomas Maschler
Senior Software Engineer at Planet
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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Top SchoolThomas Maschler is a senior software engineer with 11 years of experience at the intersection of big-data engineering, geospatial systems, and environmental science, currently contributing to Planet from Washington, DC. He combines a formal background in forest and ecosystem management with hands-on technical leadership across data platforms, APIs, microservices, and remote sensing pipelines. Thomas has built and scaled data teams and platforms (notably Cervest’s EarthCore) and driven engineering culture and automation at organizations like World Resources Institute and Global Forest Watch. He favors an active, engaged leadership style—mentoring engineers while remaining deeply involved in architecture and implementation. His work uniquely bridges field-driven environmental requirements and production-grade geospatial data engineering for global-scale monitoring. Colleagues can expect a pragmatic problem-solver who translates ecological domain knowledge into robust, scalable data systems.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Forest and Ecosystem Services, Master's degree, Forest and Ecosystem Services at The University of Freiburg
German, English, French
Stackoverflow
1,026reputation
71kreached
37answers
7questions
Github Skills (200)
fastapi10
python10
json-schema10
swagger10
stac10
openapi10
async10
geopandas10
atlas10
arcgis10
arcgis-online10
api10
swagger-ui10
rest10
translator10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
wri/glad_tiles_pipeline
Jan 2019 - Oct 2020
Pipeline for GLAD tile processing
Contributions:5 releases, 179 commits, 72 PRs in 1 year 9 months
gladpipelinetile
wri/gfw-sync
Jan 2015 - Jun 2019
Contributions:6 PRs, 72 pushes, 6 branches in 4 years 6 months
gfwsynchronization
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