Jonathan Stichbury
Lead Software Engineer at HERE Technologies
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolJonathan Stichbury is a Lead Software Engineer based in Berlin with 13 years of experience building high-performance rendering and mapping systems, currently driving WebGL/Three.js geometry editing prototypes at HERE Technologies. He combines a first-class honours software engineering degree with deep practical expertise in TypeScript, C++ and full-stack development, having contributed to the open-source harp.gl 3D map renderer—improving image handling, texture atlasing and camera perspective features. Jonathan favours simplicity, face-to-face collaboration and concise, maintainable code, and has repeatedly delivered measurable performance wins (for example a 300% load improvement earlier in his career). He leads through influence and feedback, mentors teams across the software lifecycle, and brings a curious, engineering-first mindset to challenging spatial and visualization problems.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (first class honours), Software Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (first class honours), Software Engineering at University of Waikato
English, German
Github Skills (8)
3d10
webgl10
threejs10
typescript10
javascript10
typescripts10
typescript-types10
maps9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
heremaps/harp.gl
Feb 2019 - Jul 2022
3D web map rendering engine written in TypeScript using three.js
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:9 releases, 410 reviews, 280 commits in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Jonathan primarily contributed to the 3D web map rendering engine by implementing and refining image handling functionalities, including the introduction of key-value storage for images and the management of texture atlases. They made changes to the user interface and also focused on expanding the camera's capabilities by adding features such as focal length calculation and handling of perspective. Their work also involved refactoring code for better maintainability and addressing bugs in the system.
rendering-engineweb-mapharpglwebgljavascript
nzjony/nzjony.github.io
Mar 2016 - Jun 2024
Contributions:27 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 4 months
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