Elijah Robison
Staff Software Development Engineer at HawkEye 360
Columbia, South Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolElijah Robison is a Staff Software Development Engineer and GIS specialist with over a decade of experience building high-performance, low-latency geospatial APIs, ETL pipelines, and full-stack internet mapping applications. He combines deep domain knowledge across cadastre, RF, hydrology, aviation, traffic safety, weather, and telecom with hands-on experience in PostGIS, Snowflake, ArcGIS extensions, QGIS plugins, and cloud CI/CD workflows. Known for shipping practical analytics and automation—such as Aurora post-processing analytics, a flattened HTML analytics deliverable, and a Snowflake/Okta migration for a QGIS plugin—he bridges data engineering, integration, and UI-driven mapping. Elijah authored a technical O’Reilly title early in his career and has a long history of contributing pragmatic fixes and extensions to open geospatial tooling (notably improving GDAL tiling performance years ago). Based in Columbia, SC, he pairs academic training in Geospatial Sciences with a knack for turning complex spatial requirements into maintainable, production-ready systems. Off the clock he’s a lifelong ice hockey enthusiast and a so-so fisherman—small hints of the persistence and patience he brings to engineering challenges.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
History, History at University of ArkansasMaster of Science (MS) Geospatial Sciences, Master of Science (MS) Geospatial Sciences at Missouri State University
Github Skills (10)
maps10
leaflet10
javascript9
mapnik8
typescript8
rendering8
cartography8
gis7
python6
geospatial5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
elrobis/Google-Encoded-Polyline-PostGRESql-PostGIS-Implementation
May 2017 - Oct 2022
Contributions:17 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 5 months
elrobis/L.Control.ZoomBar
May 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 3 branches in 1 day
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