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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Github Skills (128)
notebook10
google-cloud-platform10
python10
data-warehouse10
ipython10
duckdb10
polars10
forestry10
r10
dataframes10
linux10
sql10
rust10
embedded-database10
database10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
vlulla/data.table
Jan 2015 - Nov 2025
R's data.table package extends data.frame. More info:
Contributions:125 pushes, 2 branches in 10 years 11 months
r-packageframemore-inforstatsdata-frame
vlulla/dev-shells
Jan 2021 - Mar 2025
Contributions:30 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 2 months
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