Morgan Thompson
Forest Data Specialist
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolMorgan Thompson is a Forest Data Specialist and geospatial software developer with 12 years of experience building and deploying spatial systems from desktop GIS to cloud-native platforms. They combine hands-on work with open-source geospatial projects (GeoServer, GeoTools) and practical delivery—designing Kubernetes and AWS deployments, CI/CD pipelines, and serverless Terraform workflows. Morgan teaches QGIS/PostGIS workshops, has built data-extraction and migration tooling (FME, OpenShift migrations), and has produced automated test suites for web interfaces. Comfortable across Python, Java, Go and modern stacks (Kafka, Elastic, React), they blend spatial analysis and remote sensing expertise with software engineering rigor. Based in Victoria, BC, Morgan is also an avid trail hiker who creates art from satellite imagery and maps tabletop worlds as a dungeon master, revealing a creative approach to geospatial storytelling.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Geomatics, Bachelor's Degree, Geomatics at University of Victoria
English, French
Github Skills (96)
env10
wps10
wfs10
geojson10
epic10
mongoose10
ogc10
api10
maps10
shapefile10
angular10
wcs10
java10
wms10
gml10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
mtCarto/eagle-public
Aug 2019 - Feb 2021
EPIC revision 2019
Contributions:11 PRs, 199 pushes, 133 branches in 1 year 5 months
epic
mtCarto/NRPTI
Jul 2020 - Jul 2021
Natural Resources Public Transparency Initiative
Contributions:166 pushes, 81 branches, 1 tag in 11 months
reacttransparency-initiativeinitiativenaturaltypescript
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