Alex Thomas
Director Solutions Engineering at EOG Resources
Houston, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Thomas is a Director of Solutions Engineering with over 15 years of experience turning spatial and data challenges into production-ready tools and platforms, currently leading GIS and software teams at EOG Resources. He blends hands-on Python, PostGIS, and ESRI expertise with full-stack development (React/Mapbox, F#, .NET) to deliver reusable mapping components, ETL pipelines, and backend-agnostic APIs that put spatial data at the center of business decisions. Known for scaling teams and mentoring engineers, he excels at translating domain knowledge from oil & gas stakeholders into practical, auditable systems across diverse datastores like Oracle, SingleStore, and OmniSci. An active contributor to open mapping projects, he’s improved front-end mapping frameworks (CMV) by enhancing layer controls and dynamic legends, reflecting a user-focused approach to geospatial UX. Based in Houston with an electrical engineering background from UT Austin, he combines low-level technical rigor from early hardware work with broad product and platform leadership.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors Electrical Engineering, Bachelors Electrical Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin
Github Skills (3)
javascript10
dojo10
widgets10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
cmv/cmv-app
Jan 2016 - Apr 2016
CMV - The Configurable Map Viewer - A community supported open source mapping framework built with the Esri JavaScript API and the Dojo Toolkit
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 1 PR, 4 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to the front-end aspects of the CMV application. They focused on enhancing the LayerControl functionality, including the ability to add and remove layers, control layer ordering, and integrate dynamic map service sublayers. Their work also involved improving the user interface by incorporating dynamic layer legends. They also worked on fixing linting issues and standardizing the formatting of JavaScript files.
arcgisarcgis-apiarcgis-jsesri-javascript-apicommunity-supported
AlexThomasEOG/cmv-app
Jan 2016 - Jan 2016
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 5 days
apiesri-javascriptdojodojo-toolkitjavascript
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