Vijay Lulla
Data Scientist
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVijay Lulla is a data scientist with 11 years of experience specializing in GIS/remote sensing, spatial databases, and scalable data engineering. He blends academic rigor—a PhD in Geography focused on remote sensing—with practical expertise in Apache Spark, PostGIS/PostgreSQL, Linux, and scientific programming in R, Python, and Scala. Vijay has moved between research and industry roles, from assistant professor and postdoc positions to applied data science and software engineering at organizations like Sweetwater and Azavea, bringing strong data governance and cloud-aware practices to production systems. He is comfortable building and optimizing spatial data pipelines and analytics, translating complex geospatial methods into operational tools. Based in Fort Wayne, Indiana, he combines domain depth in earth-observation data with pragmatic database development and administration skills often overlooked in typical data science profiles.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Geography (Remote Sensing/GIS), PhD, Geography (Remote Sensing/GIS) at Indiana State University
Stackoverflow
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11questions
Github Skills (176)
google-cloud-platform10
python10
data-warehouse10
duckdb10
polars10
database-management10
threaded10
forestry10
dataframes10
linux10
geographic10
sql10
translator10
rust10
embedded-database10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
vlulla/data.table
Jan 2015 - Nov 2024
R's data.table package extends data.frame. More info:
Contributions:124 pushes, 2 branches in 9 years 11 months
r-packageframemore-inforstatsdata-frame
vlulla/vim_templates
Dec 2019 - Mar 2025
Contributions:159 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 3 months
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