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
Dig into geospatial vector formats—including GeoJSON, WKT/WKB, and cloud-native GeoParquet—using Python to see in detail how vector features are stored in each format and to understand what cloud-native means for vector data.
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.