Martin Mikita
Infrastructure Manager at MapTiler
Brno, South Moravia, Czechia
Summary
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RockstarMartin Mikita is an infrastructure-focused engineering leader with 11 years of experience, currently managing infrastructure and technical teams at MapTiler from Brno. He combines hands-on software and backend skills with database expertise—evidenced by performance-focused contributions to the popular OpenMapTiles project where he optimized indexes and materialized view processing for map vector tiles. Progressing from software engineer to Senior Tech Lead and now Infrastructure Manager, he brings practical experience across build/distribution improvements, tooling, and schema evolution. Known for improving data pipelines and build reliability, he blends operational rigor with a developer's eye for efficient SQL and backend tooling.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (14)
openstreetmap10
vector-tiles10
indices10
postgresql10
sql10
database-optimization10
data-processing10
python9
maps9
shell8
script8
sh8
build-automation8
scripting8
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
openmaptiles/openmaptiles
Mar 2017 - Dec 2019
OpenMapTiles Vector Tile Schema Implementation
Role in this project:
Database Engineer / Database Administrator
Database Engineer / Database AdministratorContributions:1 release, 26 commits, 18 PRs in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Martin focused on optimizing database performance within the OpenMapTiles project. Their contributions involved adding and refining partial indexes to speed up the creation of materialized views within various SQL files related to transportation and waterway data. These changes improved query performance and data processing efficiency for different zoom levels. Additionally, the user updated database schemas and fixed potential conflicts to improve data rendering.
openmaptilesvector-tilesopenstreetmapopenstreetmap-datatiles
openmaptiles/openmaptiles-tools
Dec 2016 - Jun 2019
Tools to turn the schema into other formats
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 23 commits, 13 PRs in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Martin primarily focused on improving the tools used to generate mappings and process data for the OpenMapTiles project. They fixed the `generate-imposm3` mapping, adding tag processing capabilities and also integrated a new field from the OSM CSV input file. They also updated the version and made changes to `setup.py` to generate a wheel and to include descriptive metadata, indicating a focus on improving the project's build and distribution process.
map-tilesmvtmapboxmapbox-glcartography
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