Julia Olson
Product Engineer at Esri
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJulia Olson is a product engineer and geospatial specialist with 12 years of experience building maps, mapping interfaces, and spatial data products from concept to publication. Grounded in a BS in Geography and Spatial Data Science from the University of Oregon, she combines strong cartographic design and visual storytelling with hands-on proficiency in ArcGIS, QGIS, Adobe Creative Cloud, and web and scripting technologies (Python, R, HTML/CSS, JavaScript). At Esri she ships product-grade geospatial features and has contributed iOS ArcGIS Runtime fixes that improved UI behavior on iOS 13, demonstrating an eye for cross-platform usability. Her background in public health GIS and university cartography means she balances technical rigor—reprojection, geocoding, QA/QC, metadata—with clear, publication-ready visual communication. Based in Minneapolis, she brings both collaborative client-facing experience and a practical sustainability-minded perspective from earlier campus program work.
12 years of coding experience
Bachelor's degree, Geography, Spatial Data Science and Technology, Environmental Studies, Bachelor's degree, Geography, Spatial Data Science and Technology, Environmental Studies at University of Oregon
Github Skills (11)
uid10
swift10
ios10
arcgis10
mobile-development10
front-end-development10
arcgis-runtime-sdk10
ui-design10
navigation-drawer9
navigationview9
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Esri/arcgis-runtime-samples-ios
Mar 2014 - Oct 2019
Swift samples demonstrating various capabilities of ArcGIS Runtime SDK for iOS
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:9 commits, 7 PRs, 33 pushes in 5 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Julia primarily focused on resolving UI and functionality issues within the iOS application. They addressed a bug related to template picker cleanup and removed an unnecessary variable. The user also tackled iOS 13-specific issues, modifying the application's search controller implementation to ensure proper display and usability. Furthermore, the developer made adjustments to address navigation bar problems encountered on iOS 13.
arcgis-runtimearcgisruntimeatsios
feifei-shen/arcgis-runtime-samples-ios
Jun 2017 - Apr 2018
Swift samples demonstrating various capabilities of ArcGIS Runtime SDK for iOS
Contributions:14 commits in 9 months
arcgis-runtimearcgisruntimesdktoolkit
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