Michael Smith
Physical Scientist at US Army Corps of Engineers
Hanover, New Hampshire, United States
Summary
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RockstarMichael Smith is a Physical Scientist with 12 years of experience applying software and database engineering skills to geospatial problems at the US Army Corps of Engineers in Hanover, NH. He contributes to the open-source MapServer project, where his backend work improved Oracle Spatial integration, native filtering, and WFS projection handling—indicating deep expertise in spatial databases and geoprocessing. Comfortable bridging scientific requirements and production systems, he turns complex spatial queries into reliable, performant server-side solutions. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic bug fixes and subtle data-handling improvements that preserve accuracy across projections and filters.
12 years of coding experience
Github Skills (12)
c1710
databases10
geospatial10
c1110
sql10
database10
wfs9
webmap8
gml7
wms6
gdal5
engine4
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
MapServer/MapServer
Aug 2014 - Aug 2018
Source code of the MapServer project. Please submit pull requests to the 'main' branch.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:2 reviews, 9 commits, 7 PRs in 4 years
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to the backend functionality of the MapServer project, focusing on the integration and enhancement of Oracle Spatial support. Their work includes adding features for Oracle Spatial filtering, translating expressions, and fixing bugs related to IEQ comparisons. They also introduced new processing options for native filtering, and made changes to how the map extent is handled in relation to the projection in WFS services. The contributions demonstrate a strong understanding of geospatial data handling and database interaction.
sososgeosubmitogc-serviceswms
msmitherdc/mapserver
Feb 2015 - Jun 2022
Contributions:38 pushes, 12 branches in 7 years 5 months
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