Summary
Nick Hallahan is a transportation surveyor in California with 15 years of technical experience and a background in software engineering and GIS. After a decade building mapping tools and data pipelines at Apple, startups, and NGOs, he pivoted into field surveying, applying his deep understanding of geospatial data to Land Surveyor practice at Caltrans. He has experience bridging native and web technologies, moving teams to modern stacks like TypeScript/Next.js, and shipping production pipelines for large-scale mapping projects. Nick combines hands-on survey fieldwork with systems thinking from his engineering career, improving data quality and workflow automation for transportation projects. An alumnus of the University of Maine's surveying engineering technology program, he uniquely blends map-making at both code and ground levels. Outside work he has worked on pay-for-data mapping hardware programs and continues to draw on open-source GIS tooling in practical deployments.
15 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Surveying Engineering Technology, Bachelor of Science - BS Surveying Engineering Technology at University of Maine