Nick Forbes-smith
Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Forbes-smith is a technical leader and software engineer with nine years’ experience building cloud-native geospatial platforms and data visualisation tools from MVP to production. He has led teams and shipped platforms for national-scale environmental programs, digital twins, and weather visualization using TypeScript, React/MapLibre, PMTiles/GeoParquet/Zarr, PostGIS and Argo Workflows. At CSIRO Data61 he helped evolve TerriaJS and Terria SaaS, and his front-end contributions to the widely used TerriaMap improve UX around related maps and versioning. Comfortable bridging planning and hands-on engineering, he combines roadmap-driven leadership with deep implementation skills in distributed geospatial processing stacks. Based in Hobart, Tasmania, he repeatedly delivers reproducible, open-source-first solutions for environmental and government clients. He pairs a mathematics/computer science background with practical experience scaling data pipelines to thousands of cores for large ensemble simulations.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Mathematics (Statistics) and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Mathematics (Statistics) and Computer Science at University of Tasmania
Github Skills (7)
javascript10
user-interface10
front-end-development10
react10
configuration-management8
gulp7
version-control6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
TerriaJS/TerriaMap
Mar 2020 - Nov 2022
Catalog-based web geospatial visualisation platform.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:8 releases, 21 reviews, 37 commits in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Nick primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and updating configuration parameters within the terriamap project. They addressed issues related to rendering related maps and modifying the about button. The changes involved updating UI components, specifically modifying `UserInterface.jsx` to integrate functionality like related maps and about button hrefs. They also updated the versioning process to correctly reflect package versions and commit hashes.
geospatialvisualisationweb-basedcataloggis
TerriaJS/natmap-catalog-v8
Dec 2020 - Mar 2022
Edit v8 nationalmap catalog
Contributions:2 reviews, 16 PRs, 50 pushes in 1 year 2 months
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