Evan Derickson
Technical Director at National Zoning Atlas
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEvan Derickson is a Technical Director and geographer with 11 years of experience building open-source web and GIS tools that support conservation, sustainable resource development, and land use planning. Based in Seattle, he blends field-driven geographic insight with software craftsmanship—having optimized core QGIS modules for performance and maintainability and authored the open-source Chameleon vector-change tool. He has led geospatial teams and production deployments, porting desktop GIS workflows to cloud-backed web APIs and managing releases via GitHub/GitLab. Comfortable with Python, PostGIS, (Geo)Pandas, Flask and Qt, he focuses on pragmatic tooling that turns messy spatial data into actionable insight. A former field mapper and educator, he brings an uncommon empathy for end users and operational constraints when designing geospatial systems.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Photojournalism, Photojournalism at Rochester Institute of TechnologySouth Whidbey High SchoolBachelor of Arts (B.A.) Geography, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Geography at Western Washington University
English, Spanish
Github Skills (7)
geographical-information-system10
refactoring10
gis10
python10
list-comprehension10
sql9
postgresql8
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
qgis/QGIS
Jan 2021 - Feb 2021
QGIS is a free, open source, cross platform (lin/win/mac) geographical information system (GIS)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:18 commits, 2 PRs, 17 comments in 22 days
Contributions summary:Evan primarily refactored and optimized code within the QGIS codebase, focusing on list comprehensions, and string formatting. They improved the efficiency of several modules, including database management and spatial data handling functionalities. These changes suggest a focus on code maintainability and performance improvements within the geographical information system.
spatiallinwmsgeotoolsgis
KaartGroup/ogr2osm
Jan 2019 - Nov 2024
pnorman's version of UVM's Rewrite of ogr2osm
Contributions:4 PRs, 6 pushes, 4 branches in 5 years 11 months
wxwidgetspythonopenframeworksrewriteuvm
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