Nate Wessel
Data Specialist
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolNate Wessel is a data specialist and transport-focused GIS expert with 11 years of experience applying spatial analysis, data science, and full‑stack web tools to urban mobility challenges. Currently at the City of Toronto he builds multimodal traffic indices, supports cycling and Vision Zero analytics, and automates data workflows with production web apps. His background blends academic research and teaching—PhD-level planning work and multiple conference presentations—with hands-on cartography and interactive mapping using Leaflet, React, and D3. Nate brings a strong design and visual communication sensibility, treating visualizations as integral to analysis rather than mere outputs, and he has a proven track record delivering policy-facing tools like the Canada–Asia Sustainability Tracker. Unusually for a data specialist, he pairs bike‑mechanic experience and transport policy insight with rigorous technical craft, making his work both practical and persuasive.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Arts, Geography, Master of Arts, Geography at University of CincinnatiDoctor of Philosophy, City/Urban, Community and Regional Planning, Doctor of Philosophy, City/Urban, Community and Regional Planning at University of Toronto
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (129)
traveling-salesman10
gps10
transit10
gtfs10
cpp10
backend10
osrm10
openstreetmap10
transit-data10
data-processing10
map-matching10
pypi10
public-transport10
modeling10
gps-tracking9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
SAUSy-Lab/retro-gtfs
Jul 2016 - Jan 2020
Collect real-time transit data and process it into a retroactive GTFS 'schedule' which can be used for routing/analysis
Contributions:227 commits, 4 PRs, 215 pushes in 3 years 6 months
gtfstransit-dataretroactive-gtfsgtfs-realtimegtfs-rt
Nate-Wessel/charta-vitae
May 2019 - Aug 2021
Contributions:252 commits, 3 PRs, 201 pushes in 2 years 3 months
wordpresschartingdata-vizcorpusgraph
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