Tony Cannistra
Weather And Spatial Data Engineer
Snoqualmie, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolTony Cannistra is a Weather and Spatial Data Engineer with 13 years of experience building production-scale geospatial systems that power outdoor and environmental applications. With a PhD in Biology and a strong computer science background, he bridges first-principles backend engineering, scalable cloud geoprocessing, and publication-quality scientific analysis to deliver real-time vector tiling, weather-model vectorization, and global terrain datasets. He has led cartography and data delivery teams at onX and built real-time satellite imagery and wildfire-smoke pipelines at Gaia GPS, consistently shipping performant, cost-conscious systems for mobile clients. Motivated by conservation and ecological insight, Tony selectively applies machine learning to augment traditional geospatial methods rather than replace them. Based in Snoqualmie, WA, he blends field teaching and outdoor leadership experience with deep technical expertise to create tools that help people explore and protect the natural world.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Biology, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Biology at University of WashingtonBachelor of Science - BS Computer Science and Biology, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science and Biology at Tufts UniversityMiddle + High School, Middle + High School at Moses Brown School, Providence, RI
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Github Skills (89)
high-resolution10
snow10
imagery10
planet10
change-detection9
prediction-model9
satellite-imagery9
cloudwatch9
marine8
mws8
webapp8
energy8
ecology8
react8
gis8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
acannistra/topophilia-website
Feb 2018 - Sep 2020
Contributions:27 PRs, 112 pushes, 19 branches in 2 years 7 months
HuckleyLab/phyto-mhw
Dec 2019 - Nov 2021
Using thermal physiology to assess the ecological impacts of marine heatwaves.
Contributions:1 release, 95 commits, 6 PRs in 1 year 10 months
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