Adam Hinz
Team Lead at DRW
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolAdam Hinz is a seasoned team lead and full-stack engineer in Chicago with 15 years building real-time distributed geoprocessing tools, cleantech web platforms, and consumer apps. He moves comfortably from databases and backend services (Scala, Clojure, Python/Django) to front-end and mobile (Javascript, HTML5/CSS, iOS, Android), and has applied that span to projects like OpenTreeMap and phillytreemap.org. Adam has deep GIS and geospatial processing expertise, including work with GeoTrellis and large-scale tile and raster processing, plus hands-on experience designing CI/CD and AWS deployment tooling. He’s equally at home prototyping ML-driven analytics and streaming pipelines (Storm, Kafka-style architectures) as he is shipping polished user experiences. Colleagues rely on him to bridge research-grade spatial computation and production-ready systems while mentoring teams on robust, scalable delivery.
15 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science and Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science and Computer Engineering at University of Wisconsin-Madison
java, scala, python, javascript, ruby, clojure
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Github Skills (50)
ancestry10
forestry10
oai-pmh10
ecosystem10
crowdsourcing10
ecos10
opengis9
geotrellis9
ogc9
opensearch9
spatial-data9
python9
geospatial9
django9
metadata9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
OpenTreeMap/otm-legacy
Jun 2012 - Apr 2014
OpenTreeMap is a collaborative platform for crowdsourced tree inventory, ecosystem services calculations, and community engagement. OpenTreeMap is a project of Azavea and Urban Ecos.
Contributions:305 commits in 1 year 10 months
ecos
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