Darren Wiens
Geospatial Developer
Musquodoboit Harbour, Nova Scotia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolDarren Wiens is a Geospatial Developer with nine years of hands-on experience applying GIS, cartography, and spatial analysis to natural resources and IT projects. Based in Musquodoboit Harbour, Nova Scotia, he has progressed from GIS Analyst roles at research and environmental firms to a developer position at Sparkgeo since 2017. His profile blends practical field-focused wildlife science (M.Sc. in Wildlife, LSU) with technical GIS training (Advanced Diploma, BCIT), enabling him to translate ecological questions into robust spatial solutions. Darren is adept at building map-centric tools and workflows that support resource management and decision-making, combining programming skills with strong cartographic sense. Colleagues rely on his ability to bridge scientific nuance and production-ready geospatial software, a strength born from working across research, consulting, and product-focused environments.
9 years of coding experience
Advanced Diploma, GIS, Advanced Diploma, GIS at British Columbia Institute of Technology / BCITMaster of Science (M.Sc.), Wildlife, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Wildlife at Louisiana State UniversityBachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Biology/Biological Sciences, General, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Biology/Biological Sciences, General at Simon Fraser University
Github Skills (71)
validation9
plotly9
solara9
stac9
geospatial9
folium9
geopython9
gis9
wab9
jupyter-notebook9
cli8
filemaker8
streamlit8
python8
categories8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
darrenwiens/stac-nb
Sep 2021 - Oct 2022
STAC in Jupyter Notebooks
Contributions:55 commits, 3 PRs, 43 pushes in 1 year
jupyter-notebookstac
sparkgeo/wab-maptiks-widgets
Sep 2017 - Jan 2019
Web AppBuilder for ArcGIS (WAB) widgets enabling Maptiks map analytics on maps authored in ArcGIS Online and embedded in WAB apps.
Contributions:17 commits, 2 PRs, 14 pushes in 1 year 5 months
app-builderarcgisarcgis-onlinewab
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