Joe Burkinshaw
Geospatial Developer And Team Lead
Squamish, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolJoe Burkinshaw is a geospatial developer and team lead with over a decade of hands-on experience building end-to-end spatial data systems and web mapping applications. Based in Squamish, BC, he leads engineering at Sparkgeo after consulting across telecom, government, and infrastructure projects where he designed automated ETL pipelines ingesting hundreds of millions of features nightly. He blends full-stack web skills (OpenLayers, Leaflet, RESTful APIs) with deep spatial database and cartography expertise to turn complex geodata into actionable products. Earlier roles in multidisciplinary engineering and field geology give him rare domain fluency from data collection to production deployment. Known for pragmatic automation and scalable data architectures, he mentors teams to deliver robust, repeatable geospatial workflows.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MSc, Geographical Information Science (GIS), A / Distinction, Master of Science - MSc, Geographical Information Science (GIS), A / Distinction at The University of Edinburgh
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Github Skills (33)
datasets8
aws7
specification7
mapguide7
api7
map-viewer6
react6
server6
styled-components6
mapbox-gl-js6
api-server5
ogc5
read-write4
pure-python4
parser4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
JBurkinshaw/jburkinshaw.github.io
Nov 2015 - Sep 2021
Contributions:24 pushes in 5 years 11 months
start-bootstrapjekylljekyll-themebootstrap-themebootstrap
microsoft/ogc-api-fast-features
Jul 2021 - Nov 2021
Fast API server implementation of the OGC API: Features specification
Contributions:10 reviews, 33 commits, 21 PRs in 3 months
apispecificationogcfast-apiogc-api
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