Joel Hanson
Sr. IT Engineer - GIS DevOps at Xcel Energy
Larkspur, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolJoel Hanson is a seasoned GIS and DevOps leader with 20+ years applying Esri technology, spatial analytics, and cloud infrastructure to solve complex utility and government problems. Currently steering the technical alignment and delivery of 20+ GIS applications at Xcel Energy, he blends platform administration (ArcGIS Enterprise/Online), DB integrations, and Python automation with pragmatic architecture and scrum-based delivery. Joel has a track record of building high-availability Esri platforms on AWS/Azure, instituting data governance through living data catalogs, and operationalizing Kanban/hybrid Agile-ITIL practices to scale teams and services. He’s led award-winning projects (including an Esri SAG-winning Hub/Open Data effort) and mentors engineers to translate spatial insights into operational decision-making. Known for marrying deep geospatial domain expertise with systems thinking, he often surfaces practical cross-team integrations that aren’t obvious until deployed.
9 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Double Major: Secondary Education - Social Sciences & Psychology, Double Major: Secondary Education - Social Sciences & Psychology at North Dakota State UniversityBA Geography and Environmental Studies, BA Geography and Environmental Studies at University of Colorado Colorado Springs
Github Skills (5)
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Project-Heimdall/heimdall-search
Jun 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:7 PRs, 4 pushes, 7 branches in 1 month
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MetaPhase-Consulting/State-TalentMAP-API
May 2019 - Aug 2019
Source Code - https://github.com/USStateDept/State-TalentMAP
Contributions:12 commits, 24 PRs, 48 pushes in 2 months
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