Dustin Sampson
CTO at Sparkgeo
Canada
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolDustin Sampson is a CTO with 12 years of experience building web applications and spatial systems, leading product and engineering at Sparkgeo since 2014. He combines a strong grounding in physical geography and applied GIS with hands-on Python development to solve location-based problems and deliver data-driven web tools. Based in Canada, Dustin bridges domain expertise and software engineering, translating geospatial complexity into usable services for clients. His background in both academic geography and practical GIS gives him a rare mix of scientific rigor and production-ready engineering.
12 years of coding experience
B.App.GIS, Geographic Information Systems, B.App.GIS, Geographic Information Systems at Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT)B.Sc., Physical Geography, B.Sc., Physical Geography at University of Saskatchewan
Github Skills (29)
mermaid10
read-write10
api10
stac8
spec7
validation7
earth-engine5
earth5
data-collection5
dashboard4
python4
validating3
docker3
wcs2
datasets2
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
data-mermaid/mermaid-api
Jun 2019 - Jan 2023
Core authenticated MERMAID data read/write API
Contributions:294 reviews, 934 commits, 459 PRs in 3 years 8 months
authenticatedapimermaidread-write
SpeciesConservationLandscapes/scl-api
Oct 2019 - Sep 2022
Contributions:7 reviews, 21 PRs, 58 pushes in 2 years 11 months
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