Johnathan Rush
Senior Geospatial Software Engineer
Columbus, Ohio, United States
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Top SchoolJohnathan Rush is a Senior Geospatial Software Engineer in Columbus, Ohio with 11 years of experience at the intersection of GIS, data science, and high-performance computing. He builds scalable geospatial tooling and web GIS solutions, applying cartography and geovisualization expertise to transportation planning, space-time population dynamics, and spatial/digital humanities projects. His background includes roles in academia and national labs—shaping CyberGIS training and product work at NCSA and applying geospatial biostatistics at Mount Sinai—so he blends research rigor with production software delivery. At Element 84 he has progressed from engineer to senior technical lead, demonstrating an ability to turn complex spatial analyses into usable systems. Notably, he advanced CyberGIS education and outreach early in his career, a thread that informs his focus on reproducible, high-performance spatial workflows.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Candidate (Left Program ABD), Geography, PhD Candidate (Left Program ABD), Geography at The Ohio State UniversityBA, Geography, BA, Geography at University of Oklahoma
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (78)
visualization10
ipython9
jupyterhub9
gis9
command-line-utility9
multi-user9
jupyter-notebook9
rasterio8
r8
earth-science8
python8
stac8
map-tiles8
ide8
rstudio8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
justlab/COVID_19_admin_disparities
Jun 2020 - Jun 2021
Analysis of NYC COVID disparities using publicly-available datasets
Contributions:3 releases, 114 commits, 77 pushes in 1 year
nasa/bigstac
Sep 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:1 review, 6 PRs, 58 pushes in 6 months
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