Nicholas Ingalls
Senior Geospatial Engineer
Grand Junction, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNicholas Ingalls is a Senior Geospatial Engineer with 14 years of experience building open-source situational awareness and public safety tools, now applying that expertise at the State of Colorado. He blends backend and DevOps skills with front-end geocoding experience from Mapbox and Development Seed, and has a track record of hardening test suites and build systems across notable projects like openaddresses and node-mapnik. An active OpenStreetMap editor and longtime contributor to widely used mapping libraries, he focuses on reliable, data-driven location services and reproducible tooling. Based in Grand Junction, Colorado, he pairs field experience as a technical rescue team member and former climbing instructor with engineering discipline rooted in geodesy and geomatics. Notably, his open-source work emphasizes testing and CI improvements that quietly raise the reliability of critical geodata pipelines.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering, Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering at University of New Brunswick
Github Skills (20)
map-box10
javascript10
leaflet10
mapbox-gl10
testing10
vector-tiles10
mapnik10
ui-design10
cicd10
uid10
front-end-development10
github-api10
geocoding10
nodejs10
geojson9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
openaddresses/openaddresses
Feb 2014 - Jan 2023
A global repository of open address, building, and parcel data.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:1 review, 3267 commits, 2106 PRs in 9 years
Contributions summary:Nicholas's commits primarily focused on improving the testing infrastructure and build processes of the project. They modified test scripts to ensure compatibility with ESRI data sources, and updated the Travis CI configuration for better integration and support. Furthermore, the user contributed to setting up the stats package and refactored the build scripts to resolve brace issues.
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github-tools/github
Dec 2014 - Mar 2015
A higher-level wrapper around the Github API. Intended for the browser.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer & QA Engineer
Full-stack Developer & QA EngineerContributions:41 commits, 1 push, 1 tag in 3 months
Contributions summary:Nicholas primarily focused on testing and improving the functionality of the `github-tools/github` repository, which is a wrapper for the Github API. Their contributions involved writing and refactoring test suites, including the implementation of both passing and failing tests for basic authentication, user API calls, and repository functions, such as listing branches. They also made changes to the core `github.js` file, demonstrating a strong understanding of the project's architecture and contributing to bug fixes.
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