Dan Jacobson
Taiwan
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Top SchoolDan Jacobson is a seasoned technologist with 22 years of experience, combining a strong academic foundation in computer science and geology from Northwestern University with hands-on work at Bell Laboratories. Based in Taiwan and also known by his Chinese name 積丹尼 (jidanni), he brings a cross-disciplinary perspective to technical problems. He contributes to prominent open-source infrastructure, notably improving documentation for the widely used GDAL geospatial library, enhancing clarity around configuration and OGC driver headers. His background as a technical writer on a major MIT-licensed project shows attention to detail and a commitment to making complex tools more accessible to practitioners. Comfortable at the intersection of research, engineering, and user-facing documentation, he excels at turning technical complexity into usable guidance.
22 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Computer Science, Master’s Degree, Computer Science at Northwestern University
Chinese, English
Stackoverflow
510reputation
20kreached
17answers
11questions
Github Skills (15)
sphinx-doc10
sphinx10
documentation10
spatial-data8
geospatial8
vector-math7
raster7
vector7
youtube-api6
htaccess6
fonts6
google-chrome6
android6
youtube6
emacs6
Programming languages (35)
Github contributions (5)
OSGeo/gdal
May 2020 - May 2020
GDAL is an open source MIT licensed translator library for raster and vector geospatial data formats.
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:9 reviews, 17 commits, 150 PRs in 7 days
Contributions summary:Dan primarily contributed to the project's documentation. Their commits focused on updating and correcting documentation files within the GDAL repository, specifically addressing grammar, spelling, and formatting issues in various program documentation files. The user also added information on how to set configuration options and how to add headers for WFS, WMS, and WMTS drivers, indicating an effort to improve the clarity and completeness of the documentation. The user's work ensures the accuracy and usability of the documentation for GDAL users.
licensedrasteriogeospatialrasterdata-formats
jidanni/viking
May 2020 - Jul 2024
Viking is a free/open source program to manage GPS data (including GPX and KML files). You can import and plot tracks, routes and waypoints, show OpenStreetMaps (OSM), Bing Aerial and other maps, generate Mapnik maps, geotag images, make new tracks, routes and waypoints, see real-time GPS position, etc. It is written mostly in C with the GTK+ 2 toolkit and some C++.
Contributions:8 pushes, 5 branches in 4 years 2 months
positionroutesgpxelevationgps-data
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