Mark Dostal
Software Development Programmer at ESRI
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMark Dostal is a seasoned iOS and macOS developer with a career in software development stretching back to the late 1980s and over a decade on Esri’s mobile products team. He helped ship pioneering Mac and iOS mapping apps—contributing to Esri’s first Mac app that won “Best in Show” at MacWorld and to an iOS app that exceeded 900k downloads—and now focuses on empowering global developers to build immersive GIS experiences. Comfortable across Swift and native Apple platforms, he contributes hands-on samples to the ArcGIS Runtime SDK for iOS, adding features like distance composite symbols and viewshed demos that make spatial concepts accessible. Mark’s background includes early work on influential educational software (MECC’s The Oregon Trail) and long tenures at firms where device-native engineering and domain expertise mattered. Based in Minneapolis, he blends deep historical perspective on Apple platforms with practical SDK integration skills that accelerate developer success.
13 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Github Skills (4)
swift10
arcgis-runtime-sdk10
ios10
arcgis10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Esri/arcgis-runtime-samples-ios
Jun 2017 - Oct 2019
Swift samples demonstrating various capabilities of ArcGIS Runtime SDK for iOS
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:39 reviews, 84 commits, 22 PRs in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Mark primarily contributed to the development of iOS samples for the ArcGIS Runtime SDK. Their work included adding new samples demonstrating features such as distance composite symbols and viewshed functionality. They also refactored code based on pull request reviews, and addressed file organization issues. The user demonstrated a strong understanding of ArcGIS SDK integration within a Swift-based iOS development environment.
arcgis-runtimearcgisruntimeatsios
Esri/arcgis-runtime-toolkit-ios
Jun 2017 - Sep 2022
Toolkit components that will simplify your iOS app development with ArcGIS Runtime
Contributions:18 releases, 73 reviews, 335 commits in 5 years 3 months
arcgis-runtimearcgisios-appjavascriptcoreruntime
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