Colin Anderson
Software Developer at Esri
United Kingdom
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolColin Anderson is a seasoned software developer with over 9 years focused on modern GIS Java SDKs and a two-decade career spanning consumer electronics, telecommunications and embedded military systems. He brings deep hands-on experience in Java, C++, C# and Ada, having delivered production software across Esri, Panasonic OWL and GEC Marconi. At Esri he combines Agile practices with SDK design to make complex spatial functionality accessible to application developers. His background in safety- and mission-critical domains informs a disciplined approach to reliability, performance and maintainability. Based in the UK, Colin pairs pragmatic engineering with long-term product thinking, often bridging low-level embedded constraints and high-level developer APIs. He is known for translating legacy system knowledge into modern, testable SDKs that accelerate customer integration.
9 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BEng(Hons), BEng(Hons) at Edinburgh Napier University
Github Skills (23)
kotlin10
android-sample10
javafx10
arcgis10
geospatial10
desktop-application10
java10
android-library10
api10
sdk10
maps10
android-ui10
android-studio10
jetpack-compose10
gradle10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Esri/arcgis-maps-sdk-java-toolkit
Aug 2017 - Feb 2022
ArcGIS Maps SDK for Java Toolkit
Contributions:30 reviews, 199 commits, 8 PRs in 4 years 7 months
arcgis-runtime-java-sdkruntimetoolkitjava-seesri
Esri/java-gradle-starter-project
Jul 2020 - Oct 2024
Contributions:15 reviews, 7 comments in 4 years 4 months
arcgis-runtimearcgisgradlenative-developmentruntime
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