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Joe Hamman

Joe Hamman

CTO & Co-founder

9 posts

Variable length chunks in Zarr

Variable length chunks in Zarr

A new extension to Zarr just landed: the rectilinear chunk grid lets you specify arbitrarily sized chunks along each axis, aligning chunk boundaries with the natural structure of your data instead of forcing a regular grid.

Joe Hamman
Joe Hamman

CTO & Co-founder

Max Jones
Max Jones

Cloud Engineer @ DevSeed

Davis Bennet
Davis Bennet

Software Engineer (Freelance)

Meet the Earthmover Team at SciPy 2025 in Tacoma!

Meet the Earthmover Team at SciPy 2025 in Tacoma!

The Earthmover team is attending SciPy 2025 in Tacoma, Washington, with a tutorial on Xarray DataTree and Zarr, multiple talks and posters on Icechunk and Xarray, and a booth showcasing the Earthmover Platform.

Joe Hamman
Joe Hamman

CTO & Co-founder

Zarr takes Cloud-Native Geospatial by storm

Zarr takes Cloud-Native Geospatial by storm

At the 2025 Cloud-Native Geospatial conference, Zarr adoption was surging across the geospatial domain, with Copernicus Sentinel, USGS Landsat, Google Earth Engine, and ESRI ArcGIS all embracing the format for cloud-optimized array data.

Joe Hamman
Joe Hamman

CTO & Co-founder

Zarr-Python 3 is here!

Zarr-Python 3 is here!

Zarr-Python 3.0 is released with full support for the Zarr V3 specification, chunk-sharding for more flexible storage, major performance improvements from a fully asynchronous core, and a modernized extensible codebase.

Joe Hamman
Joe Hamman

CTO & Co-founder

Toward Zarr-Python 3.0

Toward Zarr-Python 3.0

The Zarr-Python project is undergoing a major refactor toward version 3.0, bringing full support for the Zarr V3 specification, new asynchronous APIs for better performance, and a modernized plugin system for codecs and storage backends.

Joe Hamman
Joe Hamman

CTO & Co-founder

Earthmover is hiring

Earthmover is hiring

Earthmover is hiring two founding engineers to help build a modern data stack for science, tackling climate and planetary challenges with cloud-native software.

Joe Hamman
Joe Hamman

CTO & Co-founder