Andrew Hill
CEO at textile.io
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolAndrew Hill is a CEO and seasoned technology leader with 15 years’ experience at the intersection of software, mapping, and biodiversity. With a PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, he translates scientific rigor into product strategy—previously serving as Chief Science Officer at CARTO and now co-founding ventures like textile.io and Tableland Network. He brings hands-on full-stack chops from contributing to widely-used open-source mapping projects (CartoDB/torque and carto.js), where he improved temporal mapping, UI controls, and data-visualization analysis features. Known for community building and team leadership, he combines data analysis and algorithm research with a founder’s focus on business development. Based in San Francisco, he’s comfortable moving between research, engineering, and go-to-market execution, often spotting product opportunities in ecological and spatial datasets.
16 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at University of Colorado Boulder
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Github Skills (26)
javascript10
lib10
css10
geospatial10
geolocation10
maps10
google-maps-api10
cartodb9
html9
data-visualization8
front-end-development8
data-visualisation8
data-visualizations8
leaflet8
back-end-development8
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
CartoDB/torque
May 2012 - Sep 2015
Temporal mapping for CARTO
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:70 commits, 1 PR, 8 pushes in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily focused on front-end development, implementing and modifying user interface components. They worked on integrating a basemap selector and features like a pause/play button and a time slider. Their changes also involved modifying and integrating a time-series data visualization using the torque library.
mappingtemporalcarto
CartoDB/cartodb
Sep 2011 - Jul 2016
Location Intelligence & Data Visualization tool
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:684 commits, 8 PRs, 18 pushes in 4 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily focused on refactoring and reorganizing components within the `cartodb` repository, a location intelligence and data visualization tool. Their contributions included moving and renaming analysis-related methods within the JavaScript codebase, specifically targeting the `analysis-options.js` file, which suggests they were modifying core analysis configuration options. They also worked on updating and completing sections related to the analyze/predict feature, indicating an involvement in improving the application's analytical capabilities.
data-visualizationcartogeolocationgeospatiallocation-services
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