Nate Smith
Head Of Product And Map Operations
Special Capital Region of Jakarta, Singapore
Summary
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Top SchoolNate Smith is a product and people leader with 11 years of experience building mapping, data collection, and geospatial products across startups, NGOs, and large platforms. Currently Head of Product and Map Operations at Grab and founder of Sixth Parallel Labs, he blends hands-on product design with fractional strategy and operations across Southeast Asia. A long-time OpenStreetMap contributor and President of the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team, he has led global tooling efforts—contributing front-end improvements to the widely used HOT Tasking Manager—to make mapping more accessible and trackable. His background spans technical product management, data engineering, and field mapping from roles at Gojek, Development Seed, and Mapbox, grounded in a public-health and chemistry education. Nate is passionate about automating workflows and simplifying complex geospatial tooling, often translating field needs into production-ready, user-friendly systems. He brings an uncommon mix of humanitarian domain expertise and product-scale operational leadership to mapping and open-data initiatives.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Chemistry, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Chemistry at University of MinnesotaMaster of Public Health (MPH) Global Health Management, Master of Public Health (MPH) Global Health Management at The George Washington University
Github Skills (8)
html10
javascript10
react10
ui-design9
css9
openstreetmap8
flask6
flask-ask6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
hotosm/tasking-manager
Feb 2017 - Jan 2019
Tasking Manager - The tool to team up for mapping in OpenStreetMap
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:66 commits, 62 PRs, 40 pushes in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Nate primarily contributed to the user interface and front-end aspects of the Tasking Manager. Their work involved adding new pages (FAQ, "What is New"), updating existing UI elements such as the logo and links, and modifying the home page content. They also implemented features, such as adding a mobile disclaimer banner, and integrated a Piwik tracking code, improving the user experience and tracking functionality of the application.
openstreetmappythonjavascriptreactjspostgresql
hotosm/openaerialmap.org
Jul 2016 - May 2018
Contributions:17 commits, 17 PRs, 35 pushes in 1 year 10 months
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