Mateusz Loskot
Senior Software Engineer at OSGeo
Wroclaw Metropolitan Area Poland
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Top SchoolMateusz Loskot is a senior software engineer with 21 years of experience specializing in geospatial systems, C++ infrastructure and cloud-native platform engineering. Based in Wroclaw, he has driven core work on flagship open-source projects—GDAL, GEOS, PDAL, libLAS and contributions to CMake and Boost—while also architecting cloud platforms and IaC at Cadcorp using Terraform, Kubernetes and Go. A charter member of OSGeo, he blends deep low-level expertise (memory, build systems, cross-platform portability) with DevOps automation and CI/CD optimization. Mateusz is equally comfortable shipping robust library internals as he is maintaining release pipelines and Windows portability, a mix reflected by fixes ranging from LAS I/O to MSVC mmap implementations. Notable and not obvious: he’s both a long-standing open-source maintainer and a practical cloud engineer who translates library-level knowledge into scalable production tooling.
21 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (Honours) Open Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (Honours) Open Mathematics and Computer Science at The Open UniversityNone (Course completed without honours) Forestry Environmental Sciences GIS Remote Sensing Information Technology Mathematics, None (Course completed without honours) Forestry Environmental Sciences GIS Remote Sensing Information Technology Mathematics at Szkoła Główna Gospodarstwa Wiejskiego w WarszawieNone Computer Science, None Computer Science at WIT Academy
English, Polish
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Programming languages (38)
Github contributions (5)
boostorg/gil
Mar 2018 - Oct 2022
Boost.GIL - Generic Image Library | Requires C++14 since Boost 1.80
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Core Contributor
Back-end Developer & Core ContributorContributions:259 reviews, 729 commits, 633 PRs in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Mateusz made several contributions to the Boost.GIL project, primarily focused on code tidying, bug fixes, and feature enhancements within the image processing library. They addressed issues related to implicit type conversions and potential integer overflows, improved code clarity, and corrected syntax in several header files. They also worked on extending IO to support more features of the BMP format. Furthermore, the user added tests to verify the image processing and color conversion algorithms.
imagecpprasterimage-librarygil
libLAS/libLAS
Dec 2007 - May 2020
C++ library and programs for reading and writing ASPRS LAS format with LiDAR data
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 reviews, 731 commits, 37 PRs in 12 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Mateusz's contributions focused on the development of a C++ library for reading and writing LAS (LASer) data. The commits involved the creation of bootstrapping scripts for autotools, refactoring of data structures, and implementing mechanisms for reading and writing data. The primary focus appears to be on the internal structure and organization of the library, along with data format support, rather than UI or front-end facing components. The user has refactored parts of the code to align with the core features of the library.
file-format-librarypythonpoint-cloud-librarypoint-cloud-processingc-library
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