Loïc Gasser
Chief Executive Officer at Maxeo Solutions
Durham, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolLoïc Gasser is a geospatial-focused fullstack developer and CEO with 13 years of experience building and leading engineering teams across startups and public-sector mapping agencies. He combines hands-on product development—from command-line tooling and UI styling to server-side map rendering—with executive leadership gained as CTO and Director of Engineering before founding Maxeo Solutions. Based in Durham, NC, he has deep domain expertise in web GIS and cartography, honed at swisstopo and through contributions to notable open-source projects like maptiler/tileserver-gl that improved CLI ergonomics and documentation. Known for translating complex spatial requirements into usable tooling and services, he pairs technical craftsmanship with a founder’s appetite for usability and practical deployment.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Environmental Engineering, Bachelor's Degree, Environmental Engineering at KTH Royal Institute of TechnologyMaster of Engineering (M.Eng.), Environment, Geoinformatics, Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Environment, Geoinformatics at Ecole polytechnique fédérale de LausanneAdvanced Certificate of English (Cambridge), English Language and Literature, General, Advanced Certificate of English (Cambridge), English Language and Literature, General at EurocenterMaturité fédérale, Biology and Chemistry, Maturité fédérale, Biology and Chemistry at Gymnase de la Cité Lausanne
English, French, German
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django-rest-framework
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Github Skills (15)
documentation10
django9
django-rest-framework9
javascript9
nodejs9
whitespace6
pandas6
django-models6
postgresql6
python6
daterange6
angular6
openlayers6
dockers5
docker5
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
maptiler/tileserver-gl
Mar 2018 - Oct 2018
Vector and raster maps with GL styles. Server side rendering by MapLibre GL Native. Map tile server for MapLibre GL JS, Android, iOS, Leaflet, OpenLayers, GIS via WMTS, etc.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 4 PRs, 6 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Loïc primarily focused on improving the command-line interface and documentation for the `tileserver-gl` project. They refactored the command-line argument parsing library, added and modified documentation for the usage, and included additional options for the command-line interface, enhancing user experience and usability. Their contributions demonstrate a proficiency in updating project configuration and improving project documentation, with a focus on making the tool more accessible and user-friendly. Furthermore, they updated the styles of the main page.
rastermapbox-glios-androidandroid-jsios
geoadmin/service-proxywms
Apr 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:46 PRs, 103 pushes, 48 branches in 4 months
wmswmtsmicroservicecaches
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