Indy Hurt
Immediate Past President
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolIndy Hurt is a geographer and senior engineering leader with 11 years of experience building geospatial systems and leading teams that deliver GIS at scale for consumer-facing products. At Zillow Group they lead geospatial engineering and data/search stacks across multiple brands and lines of business, translating complex spatial science into production services. Indy combines deep academic training (PhD-level geography) with hands-on experience across industry—from Mapzen and Apple to Gap Inc.—bridging research, product, and enterprise needs. Longstanding volunteer leadership in the Cartography and Geographic Information Society (rising from Director to Immediate Past President) underscores a commitment to advancing the profession and community governance. Known for mentoring large, cross-functional teams and for quickly operationalizing spatial research, they also prioritize thoughtful outreach—responding selectively to professional inquiries even when not accepting broad networking requests. Based in Seattle, Indy blends scholarly rigor with pragmatic engineering to turn geospatial insights into scalable, business-impacting systems.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Associates, General Education, Associates, General Education at Orange Coast CollegeMasters of Science, Geographic Information Systems, Masters of Science, Geographic Information Systems at University of RedlandsPh.D, Geography, Ph.D, Geography at University of California, Santa BarbaraBachelors, Geography, Bachelors, Geography at University of California, Los Angeles
Github Skills (41)
geocoder9
bounding9
pelias9
region7
planet7
mapzen6
modular6
elasticsearch5
geo5
plpgsql4
json4
open-data4
topojson4
api3
python3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
IndyHurt/poi-stats
Jan 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:117 commits, 106 pushes, 2 branches in 8 months
mapzen-data/targeted-editing
Aug 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:122 commits, 119 pushes, 3 branches in 23 days
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