Ian Davies

Geospatial Software Engineer

Seattle, Washington, United States

About

I'm a geospatial data specialist who has worn a lot of different hats. As a software engineer and scientist I've worked on pulling insights from data on wildfire vulnerability, sustainable food systems, flood prediction, environmental legislation, and climate risk. Love working with geospatial and remote sensing data.

Experience

  • Software Engineer at Planet
    Sep 2023 - Present · 2 yrs 11 mos

  • Jupiter Intelligence (New York, New York, United States)
    • Geospatial Scientist
      Nov 2021 - Feb 2023 · 1 yr 4 mos

      Build scientific pipelines for global geospatial datasets; develop validation methods for disaster models; test novel ML methods for flood models; process and harmonize global DEM datasets

    • Geospatial Data Engineer
      May 2021 - Dec 2021 · 8 mos

  • Geospatial Data Analyst at The Nature Conservancy
    Sep 2020 - May 2021 · 9 mos

    Managing ecohydrological modeling in Pacific Northwest watersheds. Identifying the ecosystem benefits and trade-offs of timber extraction on jobs, carbon sequestration, and water quality. [Python, ArcGIS, remote sensing]

  • Remote Sensing Analyst at Floodbase
    Nov 2018 - Jun 2019 · 8 mos

    I helped develop and assess rapid, satellite-based flood mapping for governments and aid organizations around the world. [Python, JavaScript, Google Earth Engine, remote sensing]

  • Research Technician at University of Washington
    Nov 2016 - Sep 2017 · 11 mos

    Worked with Dr. Phil Levin at UW in partnership with The Nature Conservancy investigating the social-ecological resilience of communities to wildfire across the U.S. Also developed an R package which captures and georeferences images of traffic congestion from the Bing Maps REST API.