What the practice takes on
One engineer, a decade-plus across distributed systems and scientific computing, and a habit of finishing things. Engagements are scoped, written down, and delivered.
- i. Geospatial systems & DGGS engineering. Discrete global grids, adaptive tiling, equal-area indexing, spatial data pipelines. If your data lives on the Earth and your queries are slow, lossy, or unauditable, this is the home territory.
- ii. Distributed systems & protocol design. Content-addressed data, Merkle structures, CRDTs, verifiable exchange between parties who don't fully trust each other. Design through reference implementation.
- iii. Scientific computing. Simulation and modeling, performance engineering (Python, Nim, GPU), reproducible pipelines on the xarray / Pangeo stack.
- iv. Standards & open-source stewardship. OGC engagement, reference implementations, maintainership of libraries your product quietly depends on.
- v. Technical writing. Whitepapers, litepapers, grant proposals, documentation that earns trust rather than asking for it.
Engagements begin with a conversation: cameron@starlingfoundries.com.