Roland Sing

Co-founder, Staff Platform Engineer @Skywatch

CA

SkyWatch is on a mission to make satellite data accessible to the world. Every day, trillions of pixels are captured by satellites orbiting our planet. With new applications for this data being discovered every week, the demand for this imagery is increasing across many industries. However, the current process for purchasing satellite imagery is tedious and time-consuming. We experienced this problem first hand and, after weeks of trying to find the right data, we decided to come up with our own solution. Utilizing our past experience in building NASA-award winning software (called Supernova), we developed EarthCache™, which provides developers with the tools they need to cost-effectively add Earth observation data into their applications and workflows. We remove the complexity out of Earth observation data sourcing and processing so you can focus on what matters. Whether you are building an app for automated ground change detection, developing a way for your users to monitor remote locations on demand, or building a feature-detection algorithm, SkyWatch provides you with pre-processed future and archive data at affordable rates. I am a Staff Platform Engineer, responsible for orchestrating our serverless microservices architecture using the continuous adoption & optimization of cloud service technology to produce the satellite data you want in a fast and scalable way. Technologies used: A myriad of AWS cloud computing services like Lambda, Step Functions, Aurora, API Gateway, RDS, SNS, SQS, ECS, Fargate, S3, DynamoDB, Kinesis; other technologies like PostgreSQL, Mongo, Cassandra, Java, Python, REST and Google RPC services, Google Cloud Services, Apache Spark.

University of Waterloo

BMath, Honours Computer Science