Geospatial software engineer · South East England
I turn 500 GB drone and LiDAR surveys into secure, browser-based products that 6,000+ engineers rely on.
Built a commercial reality-capture SaaS solo (Next.js · AWS). Surveying domain + full-stack + AI-augmented delivery.
Three things, each shipped, each with a number attached.
Clients were drowning in 500 GB survey datasets their machines couldn't open. I designed and built a secure, serverless platform that streams 3D point clouds, 360° imagery, orthophotos and live drone video to the browser.
6,000+ engineers · written into client contracts as a delivery requirement
Wrapped the Reality Scan CLI in a Windows-Docker pipeline and split the job across cost-optimised AWS compute — memory-optimised for image alignment, GPU for reconstruction — as burst capacity for when the on-premise workstations max out.
Carried a £300k project
Python tooling that automated orthophoto generation and routine image processing across the survey team, plus S3 lifecycle tiering that moved cold data out of hot storage automatically.
~145 engineer-hours/week saved · ~£3,500/month storage cost cut
Discovery with the client, architecture, build, ship, measure. The numbers on this page exist because I measure what I ship.
I use AI tooling across the delivery cycle and treat its output as a draft to be reviewed, not a result to be trusted. I still read every line that goes to production.
I'm a qualified surveyor and commercial drone pilot as well as the engineer. I know what the data means before I write the code that handles it.
Domain: LiDAR / HDS · photogrammetry · UAV survey · point-cloud processing · measured building surveys.
I'm Albert Fit, a geospatial software engineer based in the South East of England. I'm Principal Surveyor and Lead Developer at The Scan Station, a drone survey and inspection company, where I created the developer role from inside a survey team and then built the product that became the company's flagship.
My route here wasn't the usual one. I studied Music Technology (a First from the University of the West of Scotland), then qualified in acoustics to postgraduate level with the Institute of Acoustics and spent four years as an acoustic consultant at RSK, designing instrumentation and monitoring systems for bridges, tramlines and HS2 embankments. That's where I first built real engineering systems in code, and where the two halves of my work met: the physical survey domain and the software that makes its data useful.
At The Scan Station I saw clients struggling with survey datasets too large for any laptop, so I taught myself what I needed and shipped Portal: a secure, serverless web platform for viewing and distributing point clouds, 360° imagery, orthophotos and live drone streams. It now serves more than 6,000 engineers across billions of pounds of infrastructure, and several clients mandate it in their contracts. I own all of it: product discovery, architecture, frontend, backend, AWS infrastructure, data pipelines and deployment.
The combination is the point. A pure software engineer couldn't have built Portal without someone fluent in the survey domain, and a pure surveyor couldn't have written it. Having both in one head is rare, and it's exactly what reality-capture and geospatial products need.
Away from the keyboard I play classical guitar, train at a CrossFit gym, and am slowly learning that a five-month-old sets the schedule.
Currently building Portal at The Scan Station. Always happy to talk geospatial, reality capture and product engineering.