Lucas Culbertson
Product Manager at EasyLocates
Denver, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLucas Culbertson is a product-focused technical leader with over a decade of hands-on experience building software, leading engineering teams, and launching products in both startup and enterprise settings. He founded and runs EasyLocates, where he recently removed technical bottlenecks and led the US go-to-market push, and now applies that product-and-engineering blend as a Product Manager at the US Army Corps of Engineers. His background spans platform and API design, cloud provisioning, and search tools for environmental restoration, plus leadership roles that helped drive an acquisition. A pragmatic coder and contributor, he has improved GIS and developer workflows in open-source projects like geopandas and Bash-it, addressing edge cases around null geometries and streamlining Python environment automation. Based in Denver, he pairs GIS domain expertise from a BS in Geographical Information & Analysis with a knack for customer interviews and operationalizing technical solutions. Colleagues describe him as a “people person’s program person” who thrives at the intersection of product strategy and engineering execution.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
University of Kansas
Stackoverflow
21reputation
9kreached
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Github Skills (27)
python10
pandas10
bash10
geospatial10
automation10
spatial-data-analysis10
virtualenv10
automations10
pyenv10
testing9
data-engineering9
bash-configuration9
pytest9
shell9
bash-shell8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
Bash-it/bash-it
Sep 2014 - Oct 2014
A community Bash framework.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:5 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Lucas primarily focused on enhancing the integration of `pyenv`, `virtualenvwrapper`, and `autoenv` within the Bash-it framework. Their contributions included creating plugins and modifying existing ones to facilitate the creation and activation of virtual environments. They addressed naming conflicts, improved initialization procedures, and ensured proper directory-specific environment activation. These changes streamline the development workflow by automating environment management based on directory context.
bash-promptbash-completionbash-configurationproductivitybash-framework
geopandas/geopandas
Aug 2014 - Aug 2014
Python tools for geographic data
Role in this project:Data Scientist / Data Engineer
Data Scientist / Data EngineerContributions:8 commits in 7 days
Contributions summary:Lucas focused on enhancing the `geopandas` library's functionality by addressing edge cases related to null geometries. Their contributions included adding tests to accurately handle null geometries in area and length calculations, as well as implementing distance calculations. They also worked on adding support for null geometries in the to_file and from_file functions. Furthermore, the user made PEP8 formatting changes to improve code readability.
pythongeographygeographic-datapython-toolsgeopandas
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