Regina Obe
President at PostGIS Development Team
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRegina Obe is a veteran database and geospatial software leader with 18+ years designing and consulting on PostgreSQL/PostGIS and SQL Server solutions as President of Paragon Corporation. Based in Boston, she blends deep systems engineering—evident from hands-on contributions to foundational open-source projects like the GEOS geometry engine and pgRouting—with product-focused roles such as Chief Database Architect for 3D web-based AR tooling. A long-time PostGIS Steering Committee member, she champions documentation, QA and geocoding work that keeps complex spatial stacks reliable across platforms and compiler environments. Her background in mechanical engineering from MIT underpins a pragmatic, systems-oriented approach to building interoperable tooling and reproducible builds.
17 years of coding experience
Highschool Diploma, Chemistry, Highschool Diploma, Chemistry at Brooklyn Technical High SchoolSB, Mechanical Engineering, SB, Mechanical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Github Skills (19)
c-language10
postgresql10
geometry10
packaging10
bash10
cmake10
c1110
c1710
build-automation10
cpp10
cprogramming-language10
devops10
boost9
cgal8
mingw8
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
libgeos/geos
Jul 2013 - Nov 2022
Geometry Engine, Open Source
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 223 commits, 5 PRs in 9 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Regina primarily contributed to the maintenance and improvement of the Geometry Engine. Their commits focused on fixing compilation errors, updating version numbers, and merging branches, indicating a role in code upkeep. The user also made changes to build scripts and added Z-coordinate support, suggesting involvement in API or library development. The user's work contributed to ensuring the library's build and functionality.
cppgeometric-algorithmsc-plus-plusopenglgeometry-library
pgRouting/pgrouting
Jun 2013 - Dec 2022
Repository contains pgRouting library. Development branch is "develop", stable branch is "master"
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:166 reviews, 81 commits, 47 PRs in 9 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Regina primarily focused on improving the build and packaging processes for the pgRouting library. They made several modifications to the `winnie` build scripts to handle different PostgreSQL versions, operating systems, and compiler types, ensuring the library can be built consistently across multiple platforms. The user also updated the scripts to include git commit information in the build output and changed the packaging to correctly name the zip file. Additionally, they addressed build issues related to Boost and CGAL dependencies, and PostgreSQL 9.6 compatibility.
spatial-analysispostgresql-extensionmastermap-matchingosgeo
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