Gary Sheppard
Senior Developer at World Wide Technology
Leesburg, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGary Sheppard is a senior developer with 13+ years building geospatial and enterprise software, currently driving solutions at World Wide Technology after a long tenure at Esri. He blends deep Java and C++ expertise with practical experience across ArcGIS Server/Runtime/Engine and desktop tooling, plus mobile (Android/iOS) and Qt-based geospatial UI work—he's contributed notable Qt samples to Esri’s ArcGIS Maps SDK repository. Comfortable across backend stacks (REST/SOAP, Node.js, PostgreSQL, Oracle) and modern dev tooling (Git, Jenkins, Maven, OSGi), he routinely delivers integrated systems spanning servers, databases, and client applications. Colleagues rely on him for complex integrations involving ArcObjects, GeoEvent, and real-time messaging (ZeroMQ), and he brings an academic grounding in computer science and geography to bridge technical and domain requirements.
13 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Geography, Geography at Penn State UniversityBS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Brigham Young University
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Github Skills (19)
c-language10
qt10
qtquick10
sdk10
qml10
maps10
cprogramming-language10
webservice9
webscraping9
text-files9
arcgis-js-api6
arcpy6
esri6
android6
arcgis-online6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
Esri/arcgis-maps-sdk-samples-qt
May 2016 - Jun 2016
ArcGIS Maps SDK for Qt Samples
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:26 commits in 10 days
Contributions summary:Gary contributed to the development of multiple Qt-based samples for the ArcGIS Maps SDK. Their work focused on implementing features using QML and C++, including a FeatureLayer DictionaryRenderer and a GraphicsOverlay DictionaryRenderer. They also updated file paths and made code improvements based on code reviews. The contributions demonstrate expertise in Qt development for geospatial applications.
qt6arcgis-runtime-sdk-arcgis-qt-sdkqmlarcgisarcgis-maps-sdk
garysheppardjr/geodev-dc-labs
Sep 2016 - Jan 2019
Lab exercises for Esri GeoDev events held in the Washington, D.C., area.
Contributions:6 releases, 95 commits, 251 PRs in 2 years 5 months
geoservereventsgeospatialgeographyesri
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