Author: Dan Stark

  • A Software Engineerโ€™s First Experience with Geospatial: Data, Tooling, and STAC

    About a year ago, I started on a new project at Element 84 working with geospatial imagery. In this blog post, I will document some things I learned on my journey. My hope is these lessons learned will help encourage more generalist software engineers to start experimenting with geospatial data and tooling. I had never…

  • High Stakes, Hard Certs

    Deciding to take the AWS Certified Solutions Architect: Professional exam at re:Invent. This certification is considered one of the toughest to achieve in IT, and it lived up to the hype. It was brutal. So brutal in fact, that after seeing that I passed, I questioned why I took it, whether it was worth it,…