Imre Samu
Owner at PELLA Informatika Ltd.
Budapest, Central Hungary
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Top SchoolImre Samu is an owner and seasoned geospatial software engineer with 11 years of experience building and maintaining data pipelines, PostGIS/Postgres tooling, and Docker-based deployments from Budapest. He contributes regularly to prominent open-source mapping projects—most notably Imposm3, PostGIS Docker images, Natural Earth, and OpenMapTiles—focusing on ETL, spatial indexing, topology, and regex-driven filtering for OSM ingestion. His work blends backend engineering, database optimization, and DevOps automation, including cross-platform image migration and build refactors that keep maps and vector tiles up-to-date. Pragmatic and detail-oriented, he brings a strong grounding in spatial data modeling and topology (and even Julia experimentation) that helps translate messy real-world geographic data into reliable, production-ready databases.
11 years of coding experience
BME MBA
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (39)
openstreetmap10
docker10
postgresql10
data-pipelines10
python10
scripting10
dockers10
datasets10
mappings10
etl10
automation10
script10
go10
postgis10
filter10
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
postgis/docker-postgis
May 2018 - Dec 2022
Docker image for PostGIS
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Database Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Database EngineerContributions:23 reviews, 58 commits, 96 PRs in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Imre's contributions primarily involve maintaining and updating the Docker images for PostGIS. They focused on adapting to changes in the upstream PostgreSQL and PostGIS versions, including migrating from older Debian versions ("Jessie") to "Stretch" and then to Bullseye. The user also implemented updates to the image generation scripts, particularly the `update.sh` script, to incorporate new PostGIS versions, dependencies, and configurations. Their work also includes refactoring and updating scripts for different PostgreSQL beta versions.
docker-imagepostgispostgresql
openmaptiles/openmaptiles
Nov 2016 - Jul 2017
OpenMapTiles Vector Tile Schema Implementation
Role in this project:Data Engineer
Data EngineerContributions:98 commits, 7 PRs, 5 pushes in 8 months
Contributions summary:Imre's commits primarily involve modifying and extending the data processing pipelines for OpenMapTiles, specifically focusing on the "highway" and "boundary" layers. The user added and modified SQL functions and views, introducing new data sources and refining existing ones. This work appears to be focused on enhancing the ETL process, as evidenced by the added comments for documentation generation.
openmaptilesvector-tilesopenstreetmapopenstreetmap-datatiles
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