Jivan Amara
Senior Django Developer, Golang Developer, Contracting With Terranodo at mandarintt.com (my own project)
San Diego, California, United States
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Top SchoolJivan Amara is a senior full-stack developer and systems engineer with 11 years of experience building and deploying Python/Django and Go applications, currently contracting with Terranodo from San Diego. He pairs hands-on backend work—contributing GeoPackage support to the popular Tegola Mapbox Vector Tile server—with strong ops skills in Docker, Celery, Postgres and AWS to deliver reproducible, production-ready systems. Comfortable owning projects end-to-end, he routinely designs database schemas, writes tests, and automates deployments while coordinating cross-functional stakeholders. His background includes leading engineering teams, parallelizing CPU‑intensive bioinformatics workflows, and shipping a Mandarin voice‑recognition product, showing a blend of research-oriented problem solving and product execution. Known for requiring little oversight, he brings both broad architectural perspective and low-level debugging expertise gained from years of Linux server administration and C/C++ work.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Computer Science, Mathematics, Comparative Religion, BSc, Computer Science, Mathematics, Comparative Religion at University of Vermont
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Github Skills (15)
go10
wkb10
cors6
ajax6
machine-learning6
fuzzy-search6
decode6
python6
spelling6
encryption6
django6
webservice6
sql5
gis4
postgis4
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
go-spatial/tegola
Oct 2017 - Jun 2018
Tegola is a Mapbox Vector Tile server written in Go
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:96 commits, 29 PRs, 142 pushes in 8 months
Contributions summary:Jivan focused on implementing functionality for the gpkg provider within the tegola project, a Mapbox Vector Tile server written in Go. Their primary contributions involve working on the MVTLayer function within the gpkg provider, particularly focusing on the integration of GeoPackage (gpkg) files. This includes implementing support for different data types, specifically a WKB geometry reader, and expanding the system to support various geometry types. They were also involved in extracting data from the GeoPackage files, creating the necessary infrastructure to read, parse and handle various aspects of that data.
golangmvtmapboxwkbtile
JivanAmara/eventkit-cloud
Mar 2017 - Jul 2017
Contributions:68 pushes, 17 branches in 3 months
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