Tyler Erickson
Founder at VorGeo
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolTyler Erickson is a geospatial technologist and CTO with 15 years of experience turning Earth science and engineering research into operational, cloud-native systems that address global sustainability challenges. He has built and led developer communities and product strategies at Google Earth Engine—helping grow its developer base and co-initiating impactful projects like OpenET—and now scales scientific data publishing and high-resolution monitoring tools through Radiant Earth and his startup VorGeo. A hands-on contributor to the Earth Engine Community repo, he writes documentation and API examples that bridge JavaScript and Python workflows and smooth integration with open-source geospatial tools. Tyler combines deep academic training in geostatistics and hydrology (PhD) with practical expertise in remote sensing, spatial statistics, and cloud computing to architect robust data pipelines and alert systems (including SAR-based deforestation alerts). Based in Los Altos, he is known for accelerating transitions from research to production by empowering diverse technical communities and advising emerging serverless geospatial platforms.
15 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Civil Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Civil Engineering at Colorado State UniversityCalifornia Institute of TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Geostatistics Hydrology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Geostatistics Hydrology at University of Colorado BoulderEngineer's degree Civil & Environmental Engineering, Engineer's degree Civil & Environmental Engineering at Stanford University
Stackoverflow
548reputation
19kreached
9answers
0questions
Github Skills (12)
google-earth-engine10
api-documentation10
javascript10
python10
geojson9
kml6
jupyter-notebook6
ipython6
postgis6
django6
geodjango6
google-earth6
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
google/earthengine-community
Sep 2019 - Sep 2022
Tutorials and content created by Earth Engine users, for Earth Engine users
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:9 commits, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 3 years
Contributions summary:Tyler primarily contributed to documentation and API examples within the Earth Engine Community repository. Their work involved creating and modifying code samples in both JavaScript and Python, showcasing different Earth Engine functionalities. The commits focused on providing clear usage examples, covering topics such as geometry evaluation, UI elements, and various geometry operations including difference, intersection, and symmetric difference. The changes reflect an effort to refine and expand the available documentation.
google-earth-engineearthearth-engine
google/earthengine-jupyter
Feb 2022 - Jan 2023
Tools for working with the Earth Engine from a Jupyter development environment
Contributions:7 releases, 62 commits, 48 pushes in 11 months
google-earth-enginejupyterpython
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.