Richard Gwozdz
Principal Software Engineer at Esri
Bellingham, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard Gwozdz is a Principal Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building server-side systems and scalable REST APIs, currently leading development of ArcGIS Enterprise Custom Data Feeds at Esri. He specializes in geospatial engineering—PostGIS/Postgres-backed services—and is the chief maintainer and product owner of the Koop open-source spatial data server, where he refactored core architecture into a monorepo and improved build tooling. A clean-code advocate comfortable across Node.js/TypeScript, AWS Lambda, Kubernetes, and Terraform, he blends hands-on backend development with DevOps and infrastructure-as-code practices. His background spans designing data schemas and CI/CD for high-use production systems, and he brings a track record of turning complex geospatial workflows into reliable APIs. Based in Bellingham, WA, he combines academic grounding with practical product stewardship and contributions that punch above the project’s size in the geospatial OSS ecosystem.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Post Graduate, Post Graduate at University of WashingtonMaster’s Degree, Master’s Degree at Western Washington University
Github Skills (8)
nodejs10
api10
server10
javascript9
etl8
data-management8
arcgis7
git7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
koopjs/koop
Aug 2019 - Jan 2023
Transform, query, and download geospatial data on the web.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:27 releases, 17 reviews, 126 commits in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Richard's contributions primarily involve back-end development tasks focused on the KoopJS project. They refactored code to a monorepo structure and made changes to feature server functionality, including edits to layer metadata and request parameter management. The user also updated the build tooling with linting and testing. This work indicates involvement in the core functionality and architecture of the project.
arcgisspatialh3wmsgis
koopjs/koop-core
Mar 2018 - Dec 2022
Core library for KoopJS (deprecated)
Contributions:48 releases, 6 reviews, 133 commits in 4 years 9 months
javascriptkoopjscore-librarynodejstypescript
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