Jeff Mckenna
Founder at GatewayGeo
Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada
Summary
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RockstarJeff Mckenna is a founder and veteran open-source geospatial engineer with over 20 years of experience building and optimizing online mapping systems. A co-founder of the influential FOSS4G conference and long-time MapServer core contributor, he specializes in MapServer application development, data optimization for web display, interoperable services (WMS/WFS/OGC API) and metadata/knowledge graph publishing. He combines hands-on back-end work—particularly build systems and Windows support for MapServer—with community leadership and open-source advocacy. Based in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, he runs GatewayGeo and leads a team of consultants who sit at the leading edge of geospatial standards and tooling. Notably, his contributions focus on making complex geospatial stacks reliable and portable across platforms, including handling tricky build and PHP integration issues that keep MapServer broadly usable.
20 years of coding experience
Github Skills (9)
c1710
configuration-management10
build-system10
c1110
makefile10
mapserver10
php9
c-language4
cprogramming-language4
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
MapServer/MapServer
Jan 2006 - Jan 2023
Source code of the MapServer project. Please submit pull requests to the 'main' branch.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 releases, 20 reviews, 507 commits in 17 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Jeff primarily contributed to build system and configuration files, suggesting a focus on the project's underlying infrastructure. They addressed build-related issues, such as fixing manifest embedding and handling PHP build errors. They also made minor code changes for building on Windows and modified configurations to run on different PHP versions.
sososgeosubmitogc-serviceswms
jmckenna/gdal
Jun 2019 - Apr 2024
GDAL is an open source X/MIT licensed translator library for raster and vector geospatial data formats.
Contributions:9 pushes, 6 branches in 4 years 10 months
licensedwpsgeospatialrasterdata-formats
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