Ian Shiland
Senior full-stack software engineer
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About
Senior full-stack software engineer with 10+ years building cloud-native geospatial systems on AWS, spanning React/TypeScript frontends and Python backends. Ships customer-facing apps and high-performance APIs (React, Vite, Material UI, MapLibre/Mapbox GL; FastAPI, Django, Flask) on microservices (ECS Fargate, Lambda, API Gateway, S3, CloudFront). Builds data pipelines for large-scale satellite and aerial imagery and metadata using STAC, Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF, GDAL, and PostGIS, and develops AI-driven geospatial intelligence with on-prem and Bedrock LLMs and semantic segmentation. Comfortable across frontend, backend, and UI on remote, agile teams.
Skills & tools
- Amazon Web Services
- Cloud-Optimized GeoTIFF
- CSS
- Django
- Flask
- GDAL
- GeoJSON
- Google Cloud Platform
- Mapbox
- MapLibre
- NoSQL
- pgRouting
- PostGIS
- Python
- Raster
- STAC
- Tippecanoe
Links
- RepositoryGitHub
- Packagepython-geosupport on PyPI
- WebsiteSpatialFlow
- WebsiteGeoLens
Evidence
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Selected work
Endorsements
Certifications
- HashiCorp Terraform Associate (2025)
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
- AWS Certified Developer – Associate