Nicolas Dufrane
Senior Project Manager at L'Entreprise des Technologies Numériques de l'Information et de la Communication
Charleroi Metropolitan Area Belgium
Summary
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Top SchoolNicolas Dufrane is a Senior Project Manager and GIS technical architect with 12 years of experience designing and delivering geospatial solutions from startup co-founder to public-sector product lead. He combines hands-on back-end Python work and front-end mapping expertise—contributing to well-known open-source projects like GeoNode, django-leaflet and MapStore2—tackling code quality, projection support and spatial rendering edge cases. Based in the Charleroi metro area, he has led product and project teams at Solidaris and founded Géode SPRL, bringing both delivery discipline and entrepreneurial pragmatism. Comfortable bridging technical architecture and stakeholder priorities, he’s known for fixing subtle bugs, adding tests and improving developer-facing integrations that reduce operational surprises.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Computer Sciences, Master, Computer Sciences at Université de Mons-HainautBachelor, Computer Sciences, Bachelor, Computer Sciences at IRAM
French, English, Dutch
Github Skills (23)
javascript10
python10
leaflet10
django10
gis10
front-end-development10
angularjs10
openlayers10
maps10
react10
testing9
spatial-data9
apidoc9
geospatial9
api9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
geosolutions-it/MapStore2
Sep 2016 - May 2018
The solution to create and share maps, dashboards, geostories with 3D support on the web. And it is open-source too!
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 7 PRs, 9 comments in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Nicolas primarily focused on enhancing the front-end functionality and features within the MapStore2 project. They implemented improvements to the ScaleBox plugin, incorporating support for custom projections and mapview DPI settings. Additional contributions included the integration of custom origins for WMS layers and modifications to the WMS legend to account for the current map scale. They also made modifications to the DrawSupport component to control the addition of draw interactions, and made corrections to properties for existing drawer components.
leafletwebmappingreactgeoserverwfs
GeoNode/geonode
Feb 2015 - Mar 2015
GeoNode is an open source platform that facilitates the creation, sharing, and collaborative use of geospatial data.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 7 PRs, 5 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Nicolas primarily focused on fixing code style issues and merging code changes, specifically addressing PEP8 violations in a Python file. They also incorporated changes related to the GeoNode API and map detail templates. Furthermore, the user made modifications to the GeoExplorer configuration, including the addition of a catalog search source. These contributions suggest a focus on back-end code maintenance and the integration of new features.
pythondjangosharingfacilitatesgis
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