John Hadaway
Product Lead at Wolt
Helsinki, Finland
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Hadaway is a Product Lead and data-focused analyst based in Helsinki with 12 years of experience applying spatial data science to cities, climate, and interactive visualization. He blends hands-on technical skills—Python (GeoPandas, PySAL), R, PostGIS, JS (React, D3, Mapbox GL)—with product leadership experience at Wolt’s autonomy rotation and research roles at MIT Senseable City Lab and FGI. His background spans applied research and consultancy across academic and industry contexts, from the University of Chicago to design fellowships and urban research units, enabling pragmatic translation of complex geospatial analysis into product features. He is fluent in visualization and design tools (Tableau, QGIS, Figma, Adobe) and brings practical experience with Docker and front-end frameworks for shipping interactive mapping products. Notably, he pairs social-science training with architectural and computational design fluency, giving him a rare ability to bridge policy, design, and engineering in urban data products.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
International School ManilaArchitectural AssociationMaster of Social Sciences, Master of Social Sciences at University of HelsinkiBachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Arts at University of Chicago
Github Skills (5)
python5
unsupervised-learning5
nlp4
natural-language-processing3
morphological-analysis2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
JohnAGoldsmith/finiteringunits
Jan 2021 - Nov 2022
Contributions:16 commits, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
JohnAGoldsmith/QtLing
Jun 2017 - Oct 2021
A Qt5-based platform for Linguistica
Contributions:2 releases, 312 commits, 20 PRs in 4 years 5 months
qt5
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