Mamata Akella
Cartographic System Designer at Felt
Denver, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMamata Akella is a cartographic system designer and web cartographer with over a decade of experience crafting map products and design systems for organizations from Esri and the National Park Service to CARTO, Stamen/Facebook, and Felt. She blends cartographic theory (MS and BA in Geography) with practical web map engineering to lead teams and ship production-ready mapping platforms and visual systems. At CARTO she progressed from senior cartographer to Head of Cartography, and now shapes modern mapping UX and tooling at Felt, demonstrating both leadership and hands-on design-engineering. Based in Denver, she is known for translating complex geospatial data into elegant, usable maps and for building reusable design systems that scale across web applications.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Geography, MS, Geography at Penn State UniversityBA, Geography, BA, Geography at UC Santa Barbara
Github Skills (45)
location-services10
python10
data-science10
geospatial10
spatial-data-analysis10
postgis10
geolocation10
maps10
jupyter-notebook10
visualizations10
tiles9
javascript9
visualization9
node-module9
cartodb9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
CartoDB/carto-vl-maps
Feb 2019 - Dec 2019
[ARCHIVED] To host CARTO VL map examples
Contributions:53 commits, 1 PR, 43 pushes in 10 months
leaflethostcarto-vlmapcarto
CartoDB/CartoColor
Apr 2016 - Dec 2019
CartoColors as a node module
Contributions:48 commits, 15 PRs, 41 pushes in 3 years 8 months
node-module
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