Matthew Gissentanna
Geospatial analysis, drone mapping, and AI-augmented tooling.
FAA Part 107 pilot running the full geospatial stack — RTK drone capture, PIX4Dmatic, and ArcGIS Pro — plus AI-augmented geospatial tooling built with Claude Code. Survey-grade orthomosaics, terrain models, and classified point clouds for off-road, overland, and public-lands work.
About
I spent 18+ years inside the data machine at companies like Amazon and Rubrik — leading pipelines and large-scale QA, where the whole job was making sure enormous, messy datasets could be trusted. It turns out that's also what mapping is: turning something sprawling and unruly into a picture people can act on.
The shift happened off the pavement. As an overlander picking my way across BLM and USFS land in the western US, I kept running into the same problem: the map was wrong, or missing, or years out of date. So I started making my own — first for the fun of it, then seriously enough to earn an FAA Part 107 certificate, fly RTK photogrammetry, and enroll in GIS & UAS at the University of Denver. What began as a way to find the next trail became Liquid Sun Creative.
Today I fly a DJI Matrice 4E and turn the captures into survey-grade deliverables — orthomosaics, terrain models, classified point clouds, contours — and build AI-augmented tooling with Claude Code to move the tedious parts faster. If you have ground that needs mapping, or a geospatial problem that needs someone who's spent two decades caring about data quality, let's talk.
Work
Get in touch
I take on drone mapping, aerial photogrammetry, and GIS work, and I’m open to geospatial roles. Best fit for off-road, overland, land-development, and public-lands projects around Colorado and the western US.
The email button opens a short template — a few lines about your project, location, deliverables, and timeline. Fill in what you can and I’ll tell you whether it’s a fit. I read every message and reply within two business days. Prefer not to email? Reach me on LinkedIn instead.