Lyzi Diamond
Documentation Engineer
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolLyzi Diamond is a Documentation Engineer with 13 years of experience translating geospatial and developer-focused technologies into clear, usable documentation and examples. Based in New York City, she has blended hands-on engineering at Mapbox—contributing to mapbox-gl-js, mapbox.js, and polyline—with leadership roles building documentation teams and developer advocacy at companies like Mapbox, Heroku, Glitch, and Salesforce. An experienced public speaker and educator, she’s delivered 30+ talks, workshops, and trainings that demystify mapping, GeoJSON, and developer tooling for diverse audiences. Her open-source contributions include practical docs and examples that improved developer onboarding for widely used projects such as Mapbox GL JS, reflecting a rare mix of front-end coding, QA pipeline experience, and content strategy.
13 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Geographic Information Science and Planning, Public Policy & Management, Bachelor of Science - BS, Geographic Information Science and Planning, Public Policy & Management at University of Oregon
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Github Skills (21)
webgl10
map-box10
javascript10
leaflet10
mapbox-gl10
testing10
css10
geojson10
front-end-development10
html10
maps10
maplibre-gl10
documentation10
typescript9
typescript-types9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
lyzidiamond/learn-geojson
Sep 2013 - Jul 2019
A project to learn about the GeoJSON data format using git, GitHub, and geojson.io.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:41 commits, 2 pushes in 5 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Lyzi primarily focused on front-end development, working with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. They modified the `index.html` file to integrate with Leaflet and OpenStreetMap, incorporating map tiles and geojson data. They made changes to the styling and included necessary JavaScript libraries for the map functionality.
shapefilegeospatialdata-formatgeojsongis
mapbox/mapbox.js
Feb 2015 - Feb 2017
Mapbox JavaScript API, a Leaflet Plugin
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:52 commits, 27 PRs, 30 pushes in 2 years
Contributions summary:Lyzi primarily contributed to the documentation and examples of the Mapbox.js library. Their work included adding and updating examples, such as those showcasing divIcons and standalone usage. They updated map IDs, and corrected code snippets, specifically focusing on improving the clarity and correctness of the library's documentation and example code.
leafletapimapboxleaflet-plugindocs-site
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