Colin Wright
Senior Data Engineer
Stirling, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorColin Wright is a Senior Data Engineer based in Stirling with over a decade of experience building geospatial and data-driven systems for government and enterprise. He combines deep GIS expertise (PostGIS, GeoServer, ArcGIS/ArcObjects) with solid software engineering skills in Python, C# and Java to deliver reliable APIs and database solutions. Colin has led teams and projects across public sector organisations and consultancies, bringing Prince2 discipline and AWS Solutions Architect knowledge to cloud-enabled data platforms. He’s particularly adept at bridging address and spatial data standards (including BS7666) with modern web and mapping stacks, turning complex geodata into operational services. Known for tenure across long-running national programs, he brings practical pragmatism and a steady track record of shipping maintainable systems.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (35)
docker-image9
openstreetmap9
docker-container9
geo9
flask9
tile-cache8
python8
wms8
proxy8
geoserver8
javascript8
wps8
mapproxy8
postgresql8
gdal7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
thinkWhere/MapProxy-Docker
Apr 2016 - Jun 2017
Repo for MapProxy Docker container
Contributions:18 commits, 12 PRs, 10 pushes in 1 year 1 month
dockerdocker-containermapproxy
thinkWhere/theMapCloud-QGIS-Plugin
May 2017 - Mar 2021
The QGIS Plugin for theMapCloud web services
Contributions:5 PRs, 8 pushes, 6 branches in 3 years 11 months
web-servicesqgispluginqgis-plugin
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