Iván Ortega
WebGL Wrangler at Freelancer
Trondheim, Trøndelag, Norway
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Top SchoolIván Ortega is a WebGL-focused front-end engineer and long-time FLOSS/GIS advocate with 18 years of software experience and 13 years in web development. Based in Trondheim, he combines deep JavaScript expertise (including contributions to core Leaflet and marker clustering) with practical GIS and OpenStreetMap leadership, having served on the OSMF board and taught EUROSHA workshops. He has applied his skills across embedded IoT tooling at Nordic Semiconductor (pc-nrfutil DFU work) and canvas/WebGL rendering for vector tiles, shipping pragmatic enhancements and tests to widely used open-source mapping projects. Comfortable across PHP, Linux and spatial stacks, Iván is known for squeezing polished UX out of geospatial complexity and retaining visual fidelity under heavy clustering and animation. His playful curiosity and long-term dedication to open standards make him a reliable contributor who balances practical product work with community-driven infrastructure.
18 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Spanish, English, Portuguese, Norwegian
Stackoverflow
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html
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Github Skills (41)
unit-testing10
javascript10
canvas2d10
python10
leaflet10
canvas10
rendering10
testing10
firmware10
vector-tiles10
typescript10
dfu10
ui-design10
render10
mappings10
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
Leaflet/Leaflet.VectorGrid
Mar 2016 - Feb 2020
Display gridded vector data (sliced GeoJSON or protobuf vector tiles) in Leaflet 1.0.0
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 72 commits, 44 PRs in 4 years
Contributions summary:Iván primarily contributed to the front-end aspects of the project. They added support for a canvas renderer to the vector grid, significantly expanding the rendering options. They implemented new demo files showcasing the use of the canvas renderer, as well as TopoJSON support, and bundled dependencies. Further contributions include bug fixes, optimizations, and overall improvements to the build process to streamline project development.
leafletvector-tilesgistilesmvt
Leaflet/Leaflet
Feb 2015 - Nov 2022
🍃 JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps 🇺🇦
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 197 reviews, 461 commits in 7 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Iván primarily contributed to the core JavaScript library of Leaflet, a mobile-friendly interactive maps library. Their commits focused on implementing new features, such as flyToBounds() and the flyTo() with options. They also fixed bugs related to touch interactions and zoom animations, while implementing various enhancements, including the implementation of options in L.Map.flyTo().
leafletjavascript-libraryjavascriptmapmobile-friendly
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