Summary
Zachery Slocum is a Senior Software Engineer specializing in GIS with 15 years of experience building production geospatial systems and research-grade tooling. He blends academic rigor as a Ph.D. candidate in Geography (space-time statistics) with hands-on engineering at USAA, delivering scalable Web GIS, ETL pipelines, and HPC-backed analyses. His technical stack spans Python, deep learning for remote-sensing tasks, Esri ArcGIS products, SQL/PHP web backends, and Linux/Docker systems administration. At CAGIS he automated road and pavement quality detection, built COVID-19 wastewater data APIs and public maps, and led offline mobile GIS solutions—demonstrating an ability to move prototypes into field-ready applications. He also mentors students and maintains research computing platforms, bringing a rare mix of operator mindset and spatial-statistics research to production engineering. Based in the San Antonio area, he is known for turning complex spatial problems into pragmatic, reproducible systems.
15 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Geography, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Geography at University of North Carolina at Charlotte
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