Billy Newman
Software Architect at VectorNorth
Littleton, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolBilly Newman is a Software Architect with 13+ years of experience building full-stack systems, currently leading architecture at VectorNorth after a long tenure as a Principal Software Engineer at CACI. He is polyglot across client and server — shipping AngularJS, iOS, Android front-ends alongside Node.js and MongoDB backends — and is comfortable oscillating between UX and data layers. His open-source contributions to the well-known GeoTools project show a pragmatic bent for geospatial data processing, including fixes to MongoDB integrations and polygon filter support. Based in Littleton, Colorado, he combines defense and enterprise software experience from Raytheon, ITT, and BIT Systems with a continuous-learning mindset that favors practical problem solving over labels.
13 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Colorado State University
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Github Skills (19)
geotools10
geospatial10
java10
mongodb-database10
javas10
mongodb10
mongoose9
angularjs9
nodejs9
data-engineering8
angular6
angular-forms6
android6
angulartest6
javascript6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
geotools/geotools
Jul 2016 - Oct 2020
Official GeoTools repository
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:9 commits, 13 PRs, 21 comments in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Billy made several contributions to the GeoTools project, primarily focused on enhancing its data processing capabilities. They implemented a URL encoding filter function in Java, adding new functionality to the filtering library. The user also addressed a bug in the MongoDB integration, fixing an issue with the AND filter and implementing support for polygon filters. Further contributions include modifications to the ISO8601 date/time string parsing and optimizing the handling of feature visitors.
geotoolsjavageospatialgisshapefile
ngageoint/mage-ios-sdk
Feb 2014 - Jun 2021
Mobile Awareness GEOINT Environment iOS SDK
Contributions:46 releases, 200 commits, 16 PRs in 7 years 4 months
iosmobile
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