Yuri Astrakhan
New York, New York, United States
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RockstarYuri Astrakhan is a software leader and co-founder of MapLibre with 13 years of experience, merging open-source stewardship with hands-on systems engineering across mapping, data visualization and Rust tooling. A former Principal Engineer at Elastic and now a Senior Staff Engineer at Rivian, he balances high-scale backend work and embedded EV software while continuing to lead MapLibre’s Martin tile server and the development of the MLT vector tile format. An active contributor to high-profile projects — from Vega and Wikimedia/OpenStreetMap integrations to rust-clippy, rust-bindgen and rust-analyzer — he speaks both JavaScript and modern Rust fluently. Known for pragmatic modernization (e.g., upgrading projects to Rust 2021 and replacing lazy_static with std::sync::LazyLock) and for streamlining CI/data pipelines, he pairs deep technical fixes with community coordination across AWS, Meta, Microsoft and the FOSS/OSM ecosystem.
13 years of coding experience
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postgresql10
python10
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mappings10
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Programming languages (35)
Github contributions (5)
openmaptiles/openmaptiles-tools
Mar 2019 - Feb 2022
Tools to turn the schema into other formats
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:23 releases, 59 reviews, 317 commits in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Yuri primarily focused on enhancing and refactoring the server-side components of the `openmaptiles-tools` repository. They made several revisions to the `server.py` file, which involved fixing function signatures and improving the structure to remove SQL injection vulnerabilities. Furthermore, they addressed deprecation warnings and improved the handling of database interactions. The user also updated dependencies and improved overall code quality and structure.
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openmaptiles/openmaptiles
Feb 2019 - Nov 2021
OpenMapTiles Vector Tile Schema Implementation
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer & Data Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Data EngineerContributions:18 reviews, 105 commits, 223 PRs in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Yuri primarily contributed to improving the build and deployment processes. They refactored quickstart and makefile scripts for better maintainability and efficiency. They also streamlined the data import process by creating scripts and leveraging tools like docker-compose and openmaptiles-tools, handling tasks such as data downloading, SQL post-processing, and MBTiles generation. Additionally, they optimized the handling of Wikidata data.
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