Joseph Miller
Senior Lead Engineer at Community
Herndon, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoseph Miller is a Senior Lead Engineer based in Herndon, VA with two decades of GIS expertise and a strong twelve-plus year background in J2EE and modern web technologies. He designs and delivers scalable geospatial systems—spanning enterprise architecture, databases, remote sensing, STAC, and cartographic visualization—and has led projects from architecture through implementation and operations. A prolific open-source committer to GeoServer and GeoTools, he implemented OGC CQL-JSON filtering, GeoServer OGC API features, and the Vector Mosaic datastore, and recently built the first GeoServer LLM community extension that brings natural-language search to geospatial data. His work blends hands-on backend development (Spring, PostgreSQL/PostGIS, Kafka, AWS) with pragmatic productization—evident in production-ready tools like Pixia Catalog and a Spring/Hibernate STAC implementation. Colleagues rely on him for turning complex geospatial and sensor-data requirements into reliable, deployable services.
8 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Masters of Arts Geography, Masters of Arts Geography at University of WashingtonHigh School, High School at CESJDSBS Cartography Natural Resources Management, BS Cartography Natural Resources Management at University of Maryland
Hebrew
Github Skills (20)
ogc10
webmap10
geospatial10
geojson10
java10
spatial-data10
javas10
geo10
api10
filter10
spatial10
filtering10
cql10
backend10
apidoc9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
geoserver/geoserver
Nov 2020 - Nov 2022
Official GeoServer repository
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:230 reviews, 39 commits, 87 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Joseph primarily contributed to the implementation of CQL-JSON filter encoding in OGC APIs, making filter conversion and cleanup. The user also focused on queryables for filtering, including adding configurable queryables, propertymapper, and associated test data. The user also worked on the support for POST queries with CQL for the OSEO project and refactoring.
wcswpswfsgeospatialgml
geotools/geotools
Aug 2020 - Nov 2022
Official GeoTools repository
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:124 reviews, 43 commits, 43 PRs in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Joseph primarily contributed to the GeoTools library, focusing on core back-end functionalities related to geospatial data processing and analysis. Their commits demonstrate the implementation of a spherical polyconic projection, along with other referencing code. They also worked on the conversion of CQL-JSON filtering, including building the necessary components for interpreting geo-spatial data and making the library compatible with GeoJson.
sqlserverpostgiswmsgeotoolsmongodb
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