Led the development, deployment, and support of over 30 GIS projects, demonstrating expertise in PostgreSQL, Bash, Python, JavaScript, GDAL, ArcGIS, PostGIS, and Mapbox technologies.

Situation. The company’s whole output was made‑to‑measure GIS — custom mapping and spatial systems built to a client’s specific problem, then kept running once they were live. Building the thing is only half of it; a geospatial project that ships and then falls over in production hasn’t really been delivered.

Task. These projects ran end to end through this role — the development, the deployment, and the support once they were live — with the technical direction across a fairly wide stack.

Action. Delivery ran on more than thirty GIS projects, hands‑on across the stack the whole way. PostgreSQL with PostGIS underneath for the spatial data, GDAL/OGR for moving it between formats — shapefiles, GeoJSON, GeoTIFF, KML, vector tiles — and QGIS and JOSM for the data work itself. On the front of it, web maps built on Mapbox GL and Leaflet, sometimes against the ArcGIS or HERE APIs, with the app layer in JavaScript, Python, PHP and SQL. The work ranged from 2D and 3D digital mapping through LiDAR processing, georectification and vectorisation to indoor mapping and navigation. And the responsibility ran past the point of shipping — the deployment and the ongoing support in production were part of it too, so problems weren’t handed off; the decisions had to be lived with.

Result. Thirty‑plus projects built, deployed and supported across that whole range. Being on the hook for the full lifecycle rather than just the build is what kept the quality honest — you design differently when you know you’re the one getting the call if it breaks.