Ivan Gayton
Senior Humanitarian Advisor at Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team
Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolIvan Gayton is a Senior Humanitarian Advisor with over two decades of front-line experience applying technology and product thinking to the toughest humanitarian contexts. He co-founded the Missing Maps initiative and has led GIS, innovation, and mission operations for Médecins Sans Frontières, blending field logistics with digital mapping to improve outcomes for vulnerable populations. Based in Kagoshima, Japan, he now advises Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team on strategic programs that translate grassroots mapping into operational impact. Ivan combines deep domain knowledge of low-income settings with pragmatic product management and people leadership, empowering teams while keeping sight of system-level goals. His background ranges from reforestation project management to building remittance operations in Africa, giving him an unusual mix of environmental, operational, and tech-for-good perspectives. Known for focusing on marginalized migrants and overlooked problems, he brings a steady, mission-driven pragmatism to innovation in humanitarian response.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
The next interesting link, The next interesting link at WikipediaUndergrad courses - no degree program, Philosophy, biology, math, Undergrad courses - no degree program, Philosophy, biology, math at The University of British ColumbiaHigh schoolLangara College
English, French, Spanish, Italian, Japanese
Github Skills (97)
balloon10
points10
java10
kite10
android-app10
point-cloud10
odk10
mhealth10
structure-from-motion10
openstreetmap9
3d-models9
maps9
kpi9
imagery9
user-friendly9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
HumanitarianStuff/tilehuria-flask
Sep 2018 - Jan 2022
Contributions:6 PRs, 92 pushes, 5 branches in 3 years 4 months
ivangayton/setup-scripts-various
Feb 2017 - May 2019
Contributions:41 commits, 63 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 3 months
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.