Chris Gervang

San Francisco, California, United States

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Chris Gervang is a visualization and data software engineer with 11 years of experience building complex simulation and real-time telemetry systems for electric aviation, currently driving visualization at Joby Aviation and serving on the vis.gl TSC within the OpenJS Foundation. He combines deep front-end expertise (React, TypeScript, WebGL) and backend/data tooling in Python and Java, and is a principal contributor to widely used open-source projects like deck.gl and loaders.gl—authoring hubble.gl and a TerrainLayer that improved WebGL terrain rendering performance. Comfortable across software and hardware domains, he has shipped firmware and PCB prototypes (patent-listed) and now translates flight test telemetry into executive-level data storytelling and cartographic brand identity. A self-taught engineer with a knack for making complex systems tangible, he blends creative hardware art interests with pragmatic engineering to solve hard visualization problems at scale.

11 years of coding experience

6 years of employment as a software developer

Stackoverflow

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Github Skills (11)

loader10

webgl10

terrain10

javascript10

nodejs10

zip10

react10

testing9

data-visualisation9

data-visualization9

data-visualizations9

Programming languages (15)

CSSCG-codeHaxeMustacheHTMLJupyter NotebookTypeScript

Github contributions (5)

visgl/deck.gl

Feb 2020 - Dec 2022

WebGL2 powered visualization framework

Role in this project:

Front-end Developer

Contributions:3 releases, 372 reviews, 28 commits in 2 years 10 months

Contributions summary:Chris contributed significantly to the development of the `TerrainLayer` example, introducing a new layer for rendering terrain meshes using WebGL2. Their work included implementing the `TerrainLayer` component, integrating the Martini library for mesh generation, and creating a tile-based rendering strategy for efficient display. Further contributions involved adding interactive UI controls to the terrain example, enhancing user experience and functionality. The user also refactored the `TerrainLayer` to improve performance and ease of use.

pythonwebgljavascriptwebgl2threejs

visgl/loaders.gl

Feb 2020 - Aug 2022

Loaders for big data visualization. Website:

Role in this project:

Full-stack Developer

Contributions:13 reviews, 6 commits, 13 PRs in 2 years 6 months

Contributions summary:Chris primarily worked on implementing a terrain loader, including parsing and processing terrain data. They also worked on the implementation of a TAR builder, based on tar-js, intended for use in hubble.gl. Their contributions involved the creation of test files and the use of test frameworks. The user's work touched both the terrain and zip modules.

csvloadersbasisdracobig-data-visualization

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