Emmanuel Sambale
Data Specialist
Pasay, Philippines
Summary
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Top SchoolEmmanuel Sambale is a data specialist with 14 years' experience blending geospatial expertise, open-data advocacy, and operational leadership to support maps, search, and navigation products at Mapbox. He co-leads global data projects focused on quality, vandalism prevention, enrichment, and large-scale OpenStreetMap integration, serving as Mapbox’s OSM community contact. Previously he managed geomatics programs at ESSC, developing national forest-cover methodologies, disaster-risk mapping tools for GFDRR, and FOSS geospatial training curricula. An active open-source contributor and technical writer, he’s improved QGIS documentation and champions open data practices for civic and humanitarian mapping. Based in Pasay, Philippines, he combines field mapping experience (including HOT deployments) with systems-level thinking to turn community-driven geodata into production-ready mapping products.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Environmental Planning, Bachelor of Science - BS, Environmental Planning at Miriam College
Github Skills (3)
rs10
documentation10
qgis9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
qgis/QGIS-Documentation
Apr 2012 - Aug 2012
QGIS Documentation
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:27 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Emmanuel primarily focused on updating and reformatting documentation for the QGIS project. Their commits involve replacing LaTeX formatting with reStructuredText (RST) conventions, updating GUI conventions, and enhancing table formatting within the documentation. They also made spellchecks, formatting improvements, and adjustments to the OpenStreetMap plugin documentation.
pythonqgisrst
essc/osm_stick
Sep 2013 - Jul 2014
Contributions:13 commits in 9 months
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