Jacob Adams
IT Analyst III at Utah Automated Geographic Reference Center
Salt Lake City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJacob Adams is an IT Analyst III and GIS specialist with eight years of experience turning complex spatial data into practical tools and compelling map-driven stories. Based in the Salt Lake City area, he blends urban planning expertise (Master’s from Portland State) with hands-on Python, Pandas, and GDAL work at the Utah Automated Geographic Reference Center, where he describes himself as a "panda wrangler" and "data whisperer." He has taught GIS as an adjunct professor and maintains practical how-to writeups on UGRC and a personal blog, signaling a commitment to knowledge sharing beyond core responsibilities. Comfortable across data management, raster processing, and cartography, he excels at prototyping solutions and iterating until they scale for production use. An understated strength is his background in systems administration and academic teaching, which gives him a rare mix of operational discipline and pedagogy for shaping reproducible geospatial workflows.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Urban and Regional Planning, Master's Degree, Urban and Regional Planning at Portland State UniversityBachelor's Degree, Geographic Information Science and Cartography, Bachelor's Degree, Geographic Information Science and Cartography at Brigham Young University
Github Skills (14)
arcpy7
smithy5
esri4
geopandas4
python-scripts4
python3
geopackage3
raster3
geotiff3
geospatial3
geospatial-analysis2
conda2
rasterio2
gdal2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
jacobdadams/general_scripts
Apr 2018 - Oct 2018
Contributions:57 commits in 6 months
pythonpython-scripts
cachecounty/arcpy_scripts
Apr 2018 - Sep 2018
Contributions:40 commits, 3 PRs, 18 pushes in 5 months
arcpypythongeoprocessingscript-toolspython-script
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