Neil Rotstan
Principal Software Engineer at Airtop
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNeil Rotstan is a Principal Software Engineer with over two decades of hands-on experience building impactful products across AI, GIS, mobile, and web platforms. Currently leading AI at Airtop, he spearheaded Airtop 2.0—the first conversational web-agent builder for repeatable workplace automation—and was recognized by Forbes for his work on AI agents. His engineering leadership includes a Webby-winning productivity app, a GIS web app relied on by Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, and Lyft, and an Apple-featured wellness app, demonstrating a rare ability to deliver both consumer and enterprise-grade solutions. Neil is also an active open-source contributor: his genetic algorithms package has informed more than 150 academic works, and he’s contributed meaningful back-end improvements to the high-profile OpenStreetMap Tasking Manager. He combines product-minded entrepreneurship—growing and exiting an online lodging business during the Great Recession—with a steady record of shipping resilient, scalable systems and mentoring teams.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Loyola Marymount University
Github Skills (12)
sqlalchemy10
postgresql10
python10
flask10
flask-ask10
database9
alembic9
databases9
rest-api8
api-rest8
restful-api8
api-design8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
hotosm/tasking-manager
Aug 2018 - Dec 2019
Tasking Manager - The tool to team up for mapping in OpenStreetMap
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:44 commits, 25 PRs, 4 pushes in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Neil primarily focused on enhancing the application's back-end functionality. They implemented configurable comment and chat length limits, modifying database migrations and server-side models in the process. Additionally, the user added a feature to notify mappers when their tasks were invalidated, involving changes to messaging services and validator logic. Further, the user contributed to task history preservation on task splits and added an option to reset project tasks while maintaining the history.
pythonflaskjavascriptmappingpostgis
maproulette/maproulette3
Jan 2018 - Mar 2021
MapRoulette, the micro-tasking tool for OpenStreetMap
Contributions:75 releases, 81 reviews, 1814 commits in 3 years 1 month
maptaskingosmmaprouletteopenstreetmap
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