Paul Uithol
Director Of Humanitarian Data
Utrecht, Netherlands
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RockstarPaul Uithol is Director of Humanitarian Data at the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team and interim Director of HOT's Asia-Pacific Hub, bringing 15 years of technical and leadership experience to humanitarian mapping and data operations. Based in Utrecht, he blends hands-on software craftsmanship with strategic program leadership to turn open geospatial data into operational insights for disaster response. A seasoned full-stack contributor to prominent open-source projects like Backbone.js, he has deep experience improving async workflows and model relations—work that informs scalable, resilient data pipelines in humanitarian contexts. Paul is comfortable switching between code-level fixes and high-level coordination, ensuring both reliability of systems and effectiveness of field operations. He combines a pragmatic engineering mindset with sectoral empathy, often surfacing subtle technical improvements that yield outsized operational benefits.
15 years of coding experience
English, Dutch
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Github Skills (15)
asynchronous10
javascript10
jquery10
backbone10
backbonejs10
async10
front-end-development9
php9
csv9
underscore8
underscorejs8
jquery-ui6
ajax6
css6
inheritance6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
PaulUithol/Backbone-relational
Apr 2011 - Sep 2015
Get and set relations (one-to-one, one-to-many, many-to-one) for Backbone models
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:419 commits, 10 PRs, 18 pushes in 4 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Paul contributed to the project by fixing code with commented-out sections and providing updates to comments in the files. They also fixed return values and events in the Backbone-relational.js, further maintaining the integrity of the code. Additionally, they made various code style improvements.
relationsone-to-manymany-to-manybackbone
jashkenas/backbone
Mar 2011 - May 2011
Give your JS App some Backbone with Models, Views, Collections, and Events
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:9 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Paul primarily worked on enhancing the Backbone.js library, focusing on features related to jQuery.Deferred integration and overall code simplification. Their commits introduced a "promise" or "request" attribute to Backbone's Model and Collection objects, exposing the underlying XHR object to allow for deferred methods. These changes improved the library's compatibility and provided a more efficient way to handle asynchronous operations. They also addressed merge conflicts, and contributed to the project's documentation.
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