Felix Palmer
Principal Rendering Engineer at Open Source projects
Czechia
Summary
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Top SchoolFelix Palmer is a Principal Rendering Engineer with 13 years of experience building high-performance visualization and full‑stack systems, currently at CARTO and founder of Procedural Limited, the team behind piste.io. He blends WebGL/JavaScript front-end expertise with back-end work in Python and Go, and has a strong track record optimizing vector tile and geojson pipelines for large-scale mapping (notably contributions to loaders.gl and deck.gl). Felix’s open-source work includes improving polygon triangulation and text rendering in three.js examples and integrating instant-answer back-end logic for DuckDuckGo, showing strength across graphics, data processing, and API integration. An Oxford-trained physicist, he combines rigorous analytical thinking with pragmatic product-focused engineering and a history of shipping visualization engines to third parties.
13 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Physics, Master, Physics at Oxford University
Github Skills (36)
webgl10
data-visualizations10
threejs10
javascript10
vector-tiles10
data-visualisation10
perl10
geojson10
google-map10
google-maps10
loader10
data-visualization10
nodejs10
geospatial-analysis10
react10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
visgl/deck.gl
May 2021 - Jan 2023
WebGL2 powered visualization framework
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:844 reviews, 416 commits, 682 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Felix's contributions primarily revolve around enhancing the functionality and user experience of the `deck.gl` data visualization framework. The commits demonstrate work on the `MVTLayer` and `GeoJsonLayer` components, including implementing polygon triangulation for the `MVTLoader`, adding support for rendering point features with different styles (circle, text, icon), and correcting data length calculations. Furthermore, the user was involved in refactoring the Google Maps integration within the framework.
pythonwebgljavascriptwebgl2threejs
visgl/loaders.gl
Apr 2021 - Oct 2022
Loaders for big data visualization. Website:
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Data Engineer
Back-end Developer & Data EngineerContributions:77 reviews, 27 commits, 38 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Felix primarily contributed to the `MVTLoader` and `geojson-to-binary` modules, focusing on optimizing the conversion of vector tile data to binary formats. They implemented triangulation for polygons, improving the handling of complex geometries, and improved the internal data structures of the MVTLoader. Further, the user enhanced the project's data processing capabilities, specifically improving support for geojson and NDJSON data formats.
csvloadersbasisdracobig-data-visualization
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