# Tom Shanks

> Data & Integration Engineer, Denver, Colorado, US. Builds the systems that turn a physical observation into something an operator can query: acquisition, decoding, georeferencing, the database, and the interface on top. Professionally, migrates legacy operational databases into production for customers, through UAT and cutover.

Every claim on this site is linked to a measurement, artifact or page. Maturity is stated as implemented, experiment or research-direction. Agent interfaces: MCP (streamable HTTP, read-only) at https://tomshanks.dev/mcp; A2A agent card at https://tomshanks.dev/.well-known/agent-card.json.

## Projects

- [RFPI — Satellite Ground Station](https://tomshanks.dev/llm/rfpi): A Raspberry Pi and RTL-SDR ground station that predicts METEOR passes, records 137.9 MHz LRPT, decodes weather imagery, catalogs every attempt, and mirrors the results to a desktop archive.
- [ADS-B Aircraft Tracking & Geospatial Analysis](https://tomshanks.dev/llm/adsb-aircraft-tracker): Live 1090 MHz ADS-B broadcasts received with an RTL-SDR, ingested into PostgreSQL/PostGIS, enriched against a 520,000-aircraft reference index, served by FastAPI and mapped in React/Leaflet.
- [Denver Urban Tree Classification](https://tomshanks.dev/llm/denver-urban-tree-classification): Mapped 18,272 tree crowns from public LiDAR, aerial imagery, and five Sentinel-2 dates. The five-class model reaches 69.0% accuracy and holds at 66.4% when whole spatial blocks are withheld.
- [Production data migration (professional)](https://tomshanks.dev/llm/operational-data-migration): Migrating and validating operational records for public-safety and first-response agencies: incidents, inspections, hydrants, personnel, inventory, from legacy records-management systems into a production platform. Employer and clients are not named; the shape of the work is.

## Structured data

- [profile.json](https://tomshanks.dev/profile.json): identity, links, capabilities
- [evidence.json](https://tomshanks.dev/evidence.json): the full evidence graph
- [capabilities.json](https://tomshanks.dev/capabilities.json): capabilities with the projects and claims that support them

## Optional

- [llms-full.txt](https://tomshanks.dev/llms-full.txt): everything above, inlined
- [Contact](https://tomshanks.dev/contact)