Wei L
Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
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Top SchoolWei L is a Machine Learning Engineer with nine years of experience specializing in geospatial ML and GPU/cloud-native workflows, currently based in Wellington, New Zealand. At DevelopmentSeed they apply practical ML engineering to remote-sensing and mapping problems, bridging research-grade models to production pipelines. Wei contributes to open-source geospatial tooling—most notably enhancing the pygmt surface gridding module with spline-based interpolation, robust testing, and xarray-friendly I/O. Their background blends backend engineering rigor with domain expertise in spatial data, enabling reliable, scalable geoprocessing. Colleagues describe them as someone who surfaces subtle data issues early, turning messy tabular inputs into trustworthy gridded products.
9 years of coding experience
Victoria University of Wellington
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (16)
xa10
xray10
python10
testing10
data-analysis9
numpy9
pandas9
geoscience8
earth-science8
image6
git6
html6
github6
tensorflow6
pandoc6
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
GenericMappingTools/pygmt
Jan 2019 - Jan 2023
A Python interface for the Generic Mapping Tools.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 3529 reviews, 251 commits in 4 years
Contributions summary:Wei's primary contribution involved implementing and refining the `surface` module, which is used for gridding tabular data. They added a gridding function using splines in tension, incorporated a function to load example data, and directed the output to temporary files for xarray loading. The user also developed several tests to ensure the surface module functioned correctly by passing in various input data and settings.
pythongeoscienceearth-sciencegeophysicsseismology
xarray-contrib/cupy-xarray
Aug 2022 - May 2026
Interface for using cupy in xarray, providing convenience accessors.
Contributions:1 release, 28 reviews, 32 PRs in 3 years 9 months
accessorcupyxarraypython
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