Jan Tschada
Produktmanager at Esri Deutschland
Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolJan Tschada is a product manager and geospatial intelligence engineer with 12 years of experience helping developers extract actionable value from location data. Based in Bonn, he has deep technical roots at Esri Deutschland—progressing from software consultant roles into product leadership—bringing practical experience integrating spatial processing into big-data ecosystems like Hadoop. His open-source contributions include back-end spatial functions for Esri's Spatial Framework for Hadoop, demonstrating hands-on ability to bridge geometry representations between Esri shapes and analytic workflows. Jan combines developer empathy with a mission-driven view that geospatial data should be used responsibly to shape sustainable futures.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Hochschule Anhalt
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (7)
javas10
hive10
spatial-analysis10
java10
data-management9
unit-testing9
hadoop8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Esri/spatial-framework-for-hadoop
Aug 2016 - Aug 2016
The Spatial Framework for Hadoop allows developers and data scientists to use the Hadoop data processing system for spatial data analysis.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 1 comment in 6 days
Contributions summary:Jan primarily focused on developing and testing spatial functions within a Hadoop environment. Their contributions included implementing an `ST_AsShape` UDF to represent geometries as Esri shapes and an `ST_GeomFromShape` operator for converting Esri shapes back into a geometry format. Furthermore, the user added multiple unit tests for the newly implemented functions. These changes centered around integrating spatial data handling with the Hadoop framework.
hadoopspatial-data-analysisdata-managementspatial-analysis
gisfromscratch/NVGViewer
Jul 2016 - Jul 2016
A simple viewer for NATO Vector Graphics
Contributions:1 release, 28 commits, 6 PRs in 15 days
natovector-graphicsviewervectorgraphics
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