Mike Thompson
Technical Consultant at Thompson Geospatial, LLC
Fort Collins, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMike Thompson is a technical consultant and geospatial software leader with a decade of focused experience and more than two decades designing and managing R&D teams for geospatial, sensor, and defense clients. He has led development of OSM-based change detection systems and web GEOINT platforms, helped win and deliver multi-million-dollar contracts, and co-invented image-to-image change detection solutions. A longtime OpenStreetMap contributor and organizer of humanitarian mapathons, he blends community-driven open data advocacy with product-grade engineering. Mike’s background spans hands-on software and sensor engineering to directing teams of programmers, DBAs, and GIS specialists, giving him a rare mix of technical depth and programmatic delivery. Based in Fort Collins, Colorado, he consistently applies inventive approaches to improving data currency and quality for both humanitarian and government use cases.
10 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Sceience, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Sceience at Baldwin Wallace University
English
Github Skills (27)
openstreetmap9
computational-geometry9
geometric9
machine-learning8
geometry7
python6
manipulation6
javascript6
location5
overpass-api4
camera4
encoding4
uhd4
editor4
imagery3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
MikeTho16/JOSM-Scripts
Nov 2017 - Sep 2020
Contributions:6 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 10 months
MikeTho16/OSM-Import-Tools
Sep 2017 - Sep 2023
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years
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