Jason Cupp
Instructor at Durham Technical Community College
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJason Cupp is an experienced geospatial product and engineering leader with 8+ years in management and over two decades in GIS and software roles spanning Esri, Thermopylae/Hexagon US Federal, and startups. He led the teams behind Google Earth Enterprise—overseeing product and engineering for a scalable, self-hosted geospatial content platform—and contributed technical documentation to the open-source Earth Enterprise project. Comfortable shifting between hands-on engineering, product ownership, and agile coaching, he has deep expertise in geospatial standards and metadata from ISO TC211 work and long tenure building ArcGIS tools. Now based in Raleigh and teaching English in higher education, he brings a rare mix of technical leadership and student-centered communication skills that make complex spatial systems approachable. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who pairs product strategy with attention to documentation and usability.
8 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors Of Science, Geographic Information Systems, Bachelors Of Science, Geographic Information Systems at Pennsylvania State University
rudimentary hungarian
Github Skills (3)
documentation10
sphinx9
rest5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
google/earthenterprise
Nov 2017 - Jan 2023
Google Earth Enterprise - Open Source
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:33 commits, 15 PRs, 15 pushes in 5 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Jason primarily contributed to the documentation of the Google Earth Enterprise project. Their work focused on updating and refining existing documentation files, specifically within the `docs/geedocs/5.2.5` and `docs/geedocs/5.3.2` directories. These updates involved correcting formatting, fixing broken links, and clarifying existing explanations related to various features and functionalities of the software.
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tst-jcupp/earthenterprise
Oct 2017 - Jan 2020
Google Earth Enterprise - Open Source
Contributions:18 pushes, 8 branches in 2 years 2 months
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