Gautam Dey
Software Engineer at Xandar LLC
San Diego, California, United States
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Top SchoolGautam Dey is a seasoned software engineer with 17 years of experience, now expanding his focus into project management while still shipping production-grade systems. Based in San Diego, he brings deep systems and backend expertise across Perl, C/C++, Go, Objective-C, Ruby and Unix environments, and currently develops the open-source Tegola vector tile server. His open-source contributions include adding WKB geometry support to Tegola and improving MySQL tooling in go-mysql, demonstrating a knack for reliable, low-level data handling in geospatial and database projects. Previously he has architected infrastructure and led product engineering at companies like Tealium and Grant Street Group, blending hands-on coding with operational ownership. Colleagues appreciate that he intentionally switches hats between coder and manager to gain broader perspective on delivery and team dynamics.
17 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BS, BS at California State University, Stanislaus
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Github Skills (6)
go10
mysql10
binlog9
database-replication9
testing8
wso26
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
go-spatial/tegola
Jun 2016 - May 2022
Tegola is a Mapbox Vector Tile server written in Go
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 128 reviews, 414 commits in 6 years
Contributions summary:Gautam was responsible for adding the WKB (Well-Known Binary) data format support to the Tegola project, specifically for handling point, linestring, and polygon geometries. They implemented the decoding for these geometry types, as well as adding methods for multi-point, multi-line, and multi-polygon geometries. Additionally, they integrated the WKB decoding with the existing geometry interfaces and created the necessary code to support the MVT format.
golangmvtmapboxwkbtile
go-mysql-org/go-mysql
Dec 2015 - Jan 2016
a powerful mysql toolset with Go
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 5 PRs, 19 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Gautam primarily contributed to the `go-mysql` repository by fixing bugs and improving the `decodeDecimal` implementation. Their work involved adding tests to validate the decimal decoding functionality, ensuring the accuracy of calculations. They also addressed an issue in the `binlogsyncer` component, correcting the hostname used for registering as a slave. These changes focused on improving the reliability and functionality of the MySQL toolset.
golangmysqlcdcreplicationtoolset
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