Geography first, then the software
"I fly the sensors, then build the software that turns their data into decisions."
I studied Geography at LSU because I wanted to understand how the world fits together — coordinate systems, terrain, the way places connect. Then I got my FAA Part 107 certificate and took that degree airborne: today I fly a multi-sensor drone fleet (thermal, OGI, LiDAR, acoustic) inside Marathon Petroleum's Garyville refinery, one of the largest in the country.
The software came from necessity. The drone program needed dashboards, thermal pipelines, and coordinate tools that didn't exist — so I built them, and they're now in daily use across the site. Off the clock, the same instinct runs five live multiplayer games with real users, custom backends, and AI-driven worlds.
I'm based in New Orleans and open to software engineering roles across geospatial systems, GIS, and real-time data.
- Languages
- Rust, Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, SQL, GLSL
- GIS & Geospatial
- ArcGIS Pro & Enterprise, coordinate systems & projections, LiDAR point clouds, photogrammetry, orthomosaics, H3 indexing, Mapbox GL, MapLibre, Leaflet, WebGL2
- Backend
- Axum, tokio, sqlx, FastAPI, Node/Express, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Docker, nginx, Cloudflare Pages, Fly.io, Prometheus, Grafana
- Frontend
- React 19, Vite, Tailwind, raw WebGL2, Three.js, custom shaders, PWA
- AI & Data
- Claude API & Vision, Groq / Cerebras / Sambanova, multi-agent architectures, binary-format reverse engineering, data pipeline design
- Drone Ops
- FAA Part 107, multi-sensor fleet (thermal / OGI / LiDAR / acoustic), DJI Terra & FlightHub 2, RTK GNSS survey
Drone Pilot / UAS Data Specialist
Fly a multi-sensor DJI fleet under Part 107 inside an active refinery — including confined-space missions under hot-work and H2S protocols — and solo-build the software layer of the drone program. GIS workflows in ArcGIS Pro & Enterprise feed the site's digital-twin initiative.
GIS Analyst
Created environmental site maps and processed spatial datasets in ArcGIS Pro; produced client-ready deliverables and supported spatial analysis.
BS Geography, Minor in Environmental Science
FAA Part 107 Remote Pilot Certificate, October 2025.