Frédéric Rodrigo
Co-Founder - Director at Cartoway
Bordeaux, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
Summary
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Top SchoolFrédéric Rodrigo is a seasoned technology leader and co-founder with 20 years of experience building production web mapping, routing and geocoding platforms from prototype to cloud. As CTO and engineering manager he has led teams up to ten engineers while architecting systems grounded in Postgres/PostGIS, OpenStreetMap tooling and Ruby on Rails. He combines hands-on backend and DevOps work—optimizing SQL pipelines for OpenMapTiles and contributing routing logic to OSRM—with product-facing skills in web clients and geospatial UX. A longtime OpenStreetMap advocate and Free Software maintainer, he blends community-driven development with commercial R&D, having founded Mapotempo and co-founded Teritorio and Cartoway. Notably, his contributions to OpenMapTiles and VROOM show deep expertise in large-scale spatial data processing and vehicle-routing integration. Based in Bordeaux, he brings practical pragmatism and a rare mix of cartography, optimization and systems-level engineering.
20 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Computer Science, Master’s Degree, Computer Science at University of Montpellier
Github Skills (43)
openstreetmap10
ruby-rails10
javascript10
c-language10
postgresql10
grapesjs10
apidoc10
data-modeling10
routing-slip10
swagger10
rails10
vehicle-routing-problem10
geospatial10
spatial-data10
select210
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
openmaptiles/openmaptiles
Dec 2017 - May 2022
OpenMapTiles Vector Tile Schema Implementation
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:11 reviews, 48 commits, 56 PRs in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Frédéric made significant contributions to the OpenMapTiles project, primarily focused on optimizing and enhancing the SQL-based data processing pipelines. Their work included refactoring SQL queries, improving the building and waterway layers, and streamlining data indexing strategies. They also addressed specific issues related to route member tagging, showing expertise in database schema design and query optimization within a geospatial context. The user demonstrated a strong understanding of the project's data model and the underlying database technologies used.
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Project-OSRM/osrm-backend
Oct 2014 - Nov 2022
Open Source Routing Machine - C++ backend
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 27 commits, 23 PRs in 8 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Frédéric primarily contributes to the car profile, focusing on speed limits and vehicle restrictions. They implemented new speed limit exceptions for various countries and refined unit parsing for more accuracy. The user also added support for physical limitations, incorporating code for vehicle height, width, length, and weight within the routing engine.
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