Summary
Ian Reese is a Senior Spatial Information Officer and geospatial engineer with over a decade of experience building cloud-native, high-performance pipelines for LiDAR, raster, and satellite data. He has led teams and delivered national-scale projects—hydro-corrected DEMs, COG web delivery, and riparian/shelterbelt detection—by combining Terraform-driven AWS orchestration with custom tiling and web mapping using OpenLayers/Maplibre. His background spans hands-on point cloud processing, hydrological analysis and cartography from LINZ to startups, plus practical product delivery as founder of XYCarto. Based in Queensland, he pairs a landscape-architecture MS with deep technical craft, uniquely bridging terrain science, scalable automation, and web visualization to turn complex environmental data into actionable, web-accessible assets.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering at Don Bosco Technical College, Mandaluyong