Jarrett Keifer

Jarrett Keifer is a Senior Geospatial Software Engineer at Element 84, a commercial geospatial consultancy that uses open-source to build effective customer solutions. His interests include education and outreach, geospatial data formats, and high-performance systems/network programming. He enjoys designing systems to operate at scale, particularly to support remote sensing data processing and earth science applications, and has over ten years of experience contributing to open source projects.


Sessions

09-03
13:00
30min
Anatomy of a file
Jarrett Keifer

Raster, vector, point cloud: every geospatial format solves the same core problems, including linearization, chunking, compression, and metadata. Let’s build a format from scratch to see these concerns in practice.

Conference Management Room4
09-03
13:30
30min
Do formats exist? Towards a unified foundation for data tooling
Jarrett Keifer

What if data formats didn't need their own libraries? The cylf ecosystem leverages WebAssembly to make codecs, format drivers, and storage drivers modular, sandboxed, and fetchable on-demand. Each can be developed independently and on its own lifecycle. We'll demo a working proof of concept.

Conference Management Room4