Hugh Saalmans
Principal Geospatial Engineer ROLLiN'
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolHugh Saalmans is a Principal Geospatial Engineer with over 25 years of geo-information and services expertise and 12 years in senior engineering and leadership roles, currently applying location science at ROLLiN' to reduce vehicle accidents and natural peril impacts. He is a recognised authority on geospatial applications in financial services and on G-NAF, having driven near-100% property-level geocoding and advanced geo-pricing at IAG. Hugh blends strategy, product management, R&D and systems architecture to turn complex address, hazards and telematics data into operational capabilities for claims, pricing and supply chain. He has a proven track record building national property datasets, weather alerting services and decision-support visualisations that improve customer experience and risk modelling. Based in Sydney with a surveying engineering background from UNSW, he often leverages open data and open-source tools to deliver practical, high-impact geospatial solutions.
12 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Higher School Certificate, Higher School Certificate at Sydney Boys High SchoolUNSW Sydney
English
Stackoverflow
255reputation
22kreached
4answers
6questions
Github Skills (62)
get-started10
admin10
leaflet10
geopandas10
census10
geospatial10
open-data10
boundaries10
geography10
h310
geocoding10
cartography10
shapefile10
demographics10
geofencing9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
minus34/please-explain
Jul 2016 - Mar 2021
Contributions:1 PR, 29 pushes, 5 branches in 4 years 8 months
minus34/postgis-scripts
Apr 2015 - Nov 2018
Contributions:64 commits, 71 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 8 months
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