Chris Natali
I have been developing systems software for two decades. At Square and previously at Standard and Poor’s, my work focused on the financial services domain. I’m also well-versed in spatial analysis and algorithms. At the Sustainable Engineering Lab of Columbia University, I applied these skills to help developing nations plan infrastructure improvements. I started my career writing navigation software at a startup.
Outside of work, I enjoy spending time with my family, surfing, playing/listening to music and experiencing extreme weather.
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Select Projects and Presentations
- Modelrunner (http://modelrunner.io): Web-based distributed job platform
- Networker (https://github.com/SEL-Columbia/networker): Python-based network planning library (co-developer)
- NetworkPlanner.R (https://github.com/SEL-Columbia/networkplanner.R): R-based network planning library
- OSM-Devops (https://github.com/SEL-Columbia/osm-devops): System to deploy OpenStreetMap for electricity data gathering
- Oync (https://github.com/SEL-Columbia/oync): System to synchronize postgis database from OpenStreetMap
- FinX (https://github.com/chrisnatali/FinX): Stock data collection and analysis tools
- Speaker at GeoNYC (https://vimeo.com/70671148): Talk on electricity planning in Africa and Indonesia
- ECREEE training (http://sel.columbia.edu/ecreee_training/): Presentation to utility employees in Cape Verde, Africa
- SharedSolar Data Warehouse (https://github.com/SEL-Columbia/shared_solar_data_warehouse): Warehouse and process for analysis of electricity usage data
- Performance comparison (https://github.com/SEL-Columbia/networker/blob/master/docs/comparison.md): Comparison of run-time and memory usage of network planning algorithms
- libspatialindex (https://github.com/libspatialindex/libspatialindex): C++-based spatialindex library (contributor)
- networkx (https://github.com/networkx/networkx): Python-based library for graph analysis (contributor)