Greg Slayden
Founder, Owner, Web Developer at Peakbagger.com
Kirkland, Washington, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolGreg Slayden is a web developer and founder with over three decades working at the intersection of geography and technology, and more than a decade running Peakbagger.com, a detailed global mountain database and community platform. He is a GIS specialist and geographic database engineer who built cartographic systems for Microsoft products including Encarta, MapPoint, and Bing Maps. At Microsoft he later led Global Readiness efforts, melding geopolitical strategy, risk management, and policy compliance with practical tooling and AI-driven processes. Greg combines deep domain expertise in spatial data and cartography with hands-on web development and community-building experience. Based in Kirkland, WA, he brings a rare blend of technical craftsmanship, operational ownership, and an eye for how geographic nuance influences product and policy decisions. An instructor and early cartography professional, he often translates complex spatial problems into usable online services for both enthusiasts and enterprise users.
10 years of coding experience
32 years of employment as a software developer
B.A./M.A., Regional Science, B.A./M.A., Regional Science at University of Pennsylvania
Spanish
Github Skills (5)
data-repository10
locale10
unicode10
cldr10
icu10
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
GregSlaydenMS/globalization
Jan 2020 - Jan 2020
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
unicode-org/cldr
Mar 2016 - Jan 2019
The home of the Unicode Common Locale Data Repository
Contributions:9 commits in 2 years 10 months
data-repositorylocalecldricuunicode
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.