Summary
Martin Tomko is an Associate Professor and geospatial scientist with 11+ years of experience bridging academia, industry and nonprofit initiatives to design and deliver spatial information systems, web/mobile mapping services, and federated geospatial infrastructures. His research and teaching focus on spatial cognition, adaptive spatial communication (navigation and wayfinding), geographic information retrieval/annotation, and geospatial interoperability, while his development work spans spatial databases, web services and rapid web mapping deployments. He has led technical architecture and project management for large-scale federated infrastructures (AURIN) and fast prototyping efforts, combining rigorous user testing with hands-on ETL and service implementation. Based in Melbourne, he brings practical national mapping agency experience and a long track record of international collaboration, including postdoctoral work in Zurich, highlighting a rare mix of theoretical depth and applied systems engineering.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
English, Slovak, French, German, Czech