Frank Gasdorf
Senior Software Developer, GIS Professional at RECONIQ Software GmbH
Hamburg, Germany
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Top SchoolFrank Gasdorf is a Senior Software Developer and GIS professional based in Hamburg with 15 years of experience building geospatial solutions for utilities and enterprise customers. He combines deep Java back-end expertise with hands-on work in GeoTools and GeoServer—contributing test automation and rendering fixes to widely used open-source mapping libraries. His career spans product-focused development, DevOps and CI/CD automation, and field-proven deployment of GIS stacks including ArcGIS, PostGIS, Oracle Spatial and containerized infrastructures. As a longtime practitioner and former ScrumMaster, he blends technical leadership with practical delivery, improving QA and transactional integrity in complex spatial systems. Notably, he has fixed nuanced rendering and i18n issues in flagship GIS projects, reflecting attention to both low-level correctness and user-facing quality.
15 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
2002 Geomatics Photogrammetric & Terrestrial Survey, 2002 Geomatics Photogrammetric & Terrestrial Survey at University of Applied Sciences Hamburg
Github Skills (19)
geotools10
testing10
geoserver10
webmap10
java10
javas10
rendering9
render9
unit-testing9
web-content9
webpages9
mappings9
gis8
wms8
geospatial8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
geoserver/geoserver
Jul 2012 - Mar 2019
Official GeoServer repository
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:162 commits, 23 PRs, 18 pushes in 6 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Frank primarily contributed to the GeoServer project by modifying Java code related to the web interface and core functionalities. Their commits focused on fixing bugs and adding internationalization (i18n) support to the user interface components. They also made changes to documentation, including URL updates and externalizing properties, and addressed a mixed order of X and Y transformation parameters issue. Further contributions include merging master branch and modifying the KML related code.
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geotools/geotools
Aug 2012 - May 2021
Official GeoTools repository
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:4 reviews, 40 commits, 27 PRs in 8 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Frank primarily focused on enhancing the `MetaBufferEstimator` within the GeoTools rendering library, addressing issues related to image size recognition in external graphic elements. They implemented several unit tests, including scenarios involving dynamic sizes, inline content, and resized images to validate these improvements. Additionally, the user fixed a typo in the code. Furthermore, the user was actively working on data tests and ensuring transactional integrity by resolving transaction.close warnings.
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