Brent Pierce
Sr. Principal Product Engineer - ArcGIS Flight at Esri
Falmouth, Maine, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrent Pierce is a senior product engineer and technical product owner with nearly two decades of GIS and software engineering experience, currently leading development of Esri’s ArcGIS Flight drone mapping and data capture platform. He blends deep domain expertise in geospatial systems with hands-on leadership—acting as certified remote pilot, product owner, and engineering lead to deliver end-to-end field and mobile mapping solutions. Brent has driven major ArcGIS capabilities from concept to market, managed distributed engineering teams, and maintained over 100 enterprise client relationships while presenting widely at international conferences. His background spans field surveying and geophysical exploration to enterprise GIS architecture, giving him a practical appreciation for both sensor-level data and scalable software design. Based in Falmouth, Maine, he balances product leadership with a developer’s mindset and a knack for distilling complex technical requirements into user-focused, production-grade features. Outside work he’s a committed family man and self-described “pants enthusiast,” signaling a down-to-earth approach to collaboration and culture.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
GIS Geographic Information Systems, GIS Geographic Information Systems at Centre of Geographic SciencesBachelor of Science - BSc Physics, Bachelor of Science - BSc Physics at Mount Allison University
Github Skills (4)
custom-url10
esri9
arcgis9
navigator8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Esri/navigator-integration
May 2016 - Mar 2017
Multi Language repository that contains documentation and sample code for creating custom URL schemes in Navigator for ArcGIS.
Contributions:29 commits, 6 PRs, 8 pushes in 9 months
navigatorarcgiscustom-urlmulti-languageschemes
Esri/explorer-integration
Dec 2016 - Aug 2017
Multi Language repository that contains documentation and sample code for creating custom URL schemes in Explorer for ArcGIS.
Contributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 8 months
arcgiscustom-urlmulti-languageschemesexplorer
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