Benjamin Lewis
Associate At The Harvard Hutchins Center
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBenjamin Lewis is a geospatial technology leader with over two decades of experience designing collaborative mapping systems, large-scale spatial archives, and infrastructure for complex spatial analysis. He led platform development at Harvard’s Center for Geographic Analysis—building projects like WorldMap, AfricaMap, and the Billion Object Platform—and now serves as an Associate at the Hutchins Center while founding a nonprofit to create open, auditable geospatial infrastructure. His work blends engineering, research support, and applied use in climate, health, and global development, with a particular emphasis on data-sparse environments and integrating machine learning with structured spatial data. Earlier roles ranged from launching GIS groups in industry and government to teaching in China, giving him a rare mix of operational, managerial, and cross-cultural experience. Trained in planning and Asian studies, he is motivated by lowering barriers to technology access and making spatial tools more transparent and scalable. Notably, his career reflects a long-term commitment to open approaches in GIS long before they were mainstream.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Asian Studies, BA, Asian Studies at University of Wisconsin-MadisonMRP, Environmental Planning, MRP, Environmental Planning at University of Pennsylvania
Chinese, French
Github Skills (11)
sdi8
gis8
django8
geospatial8
python7
solr6
data-science4
big-data3
worldmap3
camp3
openstreetmap2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
cga-harvard/hhypermap-bop
Oct 2016 - Sep 2025
HHypermap BOP -- Harvard Hypermap, Billion Object Platform (using Apache Solr)
Contributions:5 pushes in 9 years 1 month
solr
cga-harvard/Data_Science_Big_Data_Projects
Jun 2020 - Mar 2021
Repository for FASRC projects
Contributions:13 commits, 12 pushes in 8 months
pythonbig-datadata-science
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