Andrew Kurtz
Senior Software Engineer at REAL System by Penumbra, Inc.
Oakland, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Kurtz is a Senior Software Engineer with 16 years building cross-platform systems that span UI design, graphics/rendering, embedded devices, cloud services, and advanced manufacturing. Based in Oakland, he combines low-level systems programming in C/C++ and Rust with high-productivity work in JavaScript, Swift, Kotlin, and Python to ship polished products on web, mobile, desktop and embedded Linux/ARM targets. His recent work leads software for a cloud-connected VR therapeutic platform at Penumbra and includes graphics-focused roles at Mapbox—where he contributed bugfixes and rendering improvements to the widely used mapbox-gl-js WebGL library. Comfortable across the full stack, he also brings hardware and consumer-electronics experience from leading embedded and product efforts, and a track record of mentoring engineers and moving legacy macOS codebases to modern cross-platform toolchains. Notably, his background in economics and politics gives him a pragmatic, product-minded lens on engineering tradeoffs.
16 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Economics, Politics, BA, Economics, Politics at Oberlin College
Github Skills (13)
testing10
webgl10
debug10
typescript10
javascript10
maplibre-gl10
typescripts10
front-end-development10
mapbox-gl10
typescript-types10
maps9
3d8
css6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
mapbox/mapbox-gl-js
May 2019 - Feb 2020
Interactive, thoroughly customizable maps in the browser, powered by vector tiles and WebGL
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 26 commits, 39 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Andrew contributed to the `mapbox-gl-js` repository by fixing bugs and implementing improvements. They addressed issues related to paint property validation, format expression options, and ensured proper rendering of cross-faded data-driven properties. Furthermore, the user made modifications to the project's documentation and release testing pages. This work demonstrates a focus on enhancing the library's functionality and maintaining its quality.
vector-tilestilesmonorepobrowsermapbox
EFFALO/domekit
May 2011 - Oct 2012
Contributions:82 commits in 1 year 4 months
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