Simeon Fitch
Principal Software Engineer at DataShapes AI
Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolSimeon Fitch is a Principal Software Engineer and co-founder-turned-architect with 11+ years in cloud-native geospatial and remote sensing SaaS, currently leading platform work at DataShapes AI. He blends hands-on systems design in Scala and Rust with Kubernetes-driven productionization, having built raster processing and tiling engines and created LocationTech RasterFrames for Spark. Simeon has a strong track record of turning lab prototypes into market-ready products—leading EarthAI Monitor, EarthAI Site, and Ukraine Observer—and has helped commercialize client research since founding Mustard Seed Software. An active open-source contributor and maintainer (notably on georust/gdal and contributions to the widely used GeoTrellis project), he favors strong type systems as a path to robust, maintainable software. His work has been recognized with two R&D 100 awards, a patent, and over 20 technical papers, and he continues to develop high-throughput signal processing in Rust for open ecosystems.
11 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at University of Virginia
English
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Github Skills (16)
scala10
spatial10
javas10
geo10
geospatial10
java10
spatial-data10
data-processing10
sbt9
cmake9
avro9
apache-spark6
sbt-native-packager6
case-class6
akka6
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
locationtech/geotrellis
Oct 2016 - Oct 2021
GeoTrellis is a geographic data processing engine for high performance applications.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 1 review, 106 commits in 5 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Simeon primarily focused on improving and maintaining the GeoTrellis data processing engine. Their contributions include fixing typos in Coordinate Reference System (CRS) authority names within the Proj4J library and GeoTrellis CRS definitions. They also added functionality to handle default "NoData" values for all data types, along with API improvements to simplify usage. Furthermore, the user implemented a fix for handling missing EPSG codes.
geotrellis
s22s/pre-lt-raster-frames
Jul 2017 - May 2018
Spark DataFrames for earth observation data
Contributions:10 releases, 587 commits, 13 PRs in 9 months
dataframedataframesearth-observationsparksparksql
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