Matt Travis
Geospatial Data Engineer
Teignbridge, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMatt Travis is a seasoned Geospatial Data Engineer with 13 years of experience building data pipelines and spatial analyses across local government, conservation and consultancy roles. He is proficient in Python, SQL and Bash and specialises in PostGIS, GDAL, BigQuery and cloud-native analytics on AWS and GCP, often composing serverless workflows with Step Functions and Lambdas. Recently he’s been working with global building datasets like Overture Maps, leveraging Geoparquet and DuckDB for fast, reproducible analysis at scale. Based in Teignbridge, England, Matt pairs an MSc in Geographic Information Science and Cartography with practical field-to-cloud experience, bringing both domain expertise and pragmatic engineering to mapping projects. An enduring curiosity about new geodata formats and tooling drives him to simplify complex spatial problems into clean, automated pipelines.
13 years of coding experience
Plymstock SchoolBachelor of Science - BS, Oceanography, Bachelor of Science - BS, Oceanography at University of PlymouthMaster of Science - MS, Geographic Information Science and Cartography, Merit, Master of Science - MS, Geographic Information Science and Cartography, Merit at The Manchester Metropolitan University
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Github Skills (145)
command-line-interface10
osgeo10
aws-cli10
amazon10
amazon-web-services10
qgis9
topojson9
database9
http-api9
spatial9
webmap9
aws9
gis9
java9
sqlite9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
QGIS-UK/qgis-uk.github.io
May 2014 - Feb 2020
Website for QGIS UK user group
Contributions:40 commits, 9 PRs, 16 pushes in 5 years 10 months
user-groupqgis
mtravis/plymouth-opendata
Feb 2016 - Dec 2018
Contributions:2 PRs, 9 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 10 months
govcity-council-dataplymouthcouncildata-gov
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