Chris Natali

I am a software engineer with experience spanning the financial and geospatial domains.

Outside of work, I enjoy spending time with my wife and our 2 kids, surfing, playing/listening to music, experiencing extreme weather and working on my home.

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Software

• Modelrunner: Web-based distributed job platform
• Networker: Python-based network planning library
• NetworkPlanner.R: R-based network planning library
• OSM-Devops: System to deploy OpenStreetMap for electricity data gathering
• Oync: System to synchronize postgis database from OpenStreetMap
• FinX: Stock data collection and analysis tools
• SharedSolar Data Warehouse: Warehouse and process for analysis of electricity usage data
• Performance Improvement for libspatialindex: Performance improvement for intersections in widely used C++-based spatialindex library
• MultiLineString Shapefile support for networkx: Added more complete support for ESRI shapefiles to popular python networking library

Presentations

• Speaker at GeoNYC: Talk on electricity planning in Africa and Indonesia
• ECREEE training: Presentation to utility employees in Cape Verde, Africa

Writing

• Modified MST Performance Comparison: Comparison of run-time and memory usage of network planning algorithms
• Modified Boruvka’s MST: Writeup of constrained minimum spanning tree implementation that reduces space complexity from O(n^2) to O(n).
• A Way Forward: Writeup of experience collecting power grid data in Indonesia