Rob Chatfield
GIS Specialist at Snowy Hydro
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolRob Chatfield is a Senior GIS consultant with 25+ years of experience and a proven track record of leading spatial programs across Australia and internationally, now focused on future networks at Essential Energy. He combines technical depth in geographic information science and cartography (MSc) with hands-on delivery—having led NSW GIS teams at SMEC and steered major projects at Transgrid—while mentoring practitioners and shaping data-driven spatial strategy. Comfortable bridging technical, operational and client-facing roles, Rob has improved spatial data quality, mapping workflows and team capability across utilities and government. He also contributes to mobile UI work in open-source iOS projects, demonstrating attention to user experience and cross-platform presentation beyond core GIS tooling.
12 years of coding experience
Master of Science - M.Sc, Geographic Information Science and Cartography, Master of Science - M.Sc, Geographic Information Science and Cartography at University of LeicesterBachelor of Science - B.Sc, Physical Geography, Bachelor of Science - B.Sc, Physical Geography at Queen Mary University of London
English, French, German, Japanese, Chinese
Github Skills (10)
uid10
swift10
uikit10
ios10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
editors8
rich-text-editor8
editor8
autolayout7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
rajdeep/proton
Feb 2020 - Jan 2021
Purely native and extensible rich text editor for iOS and macOS Catalyst apps
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:24 reviews, 23 commits, 22 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Rob primarily focused on enhancing the example app UI for dark mode compatibility, demonstrating a strong understanding of UI development within the iOS ecosystem. They made various changes to the example app, focusing on adapting the UI to different color schemes. Furthermore, the user contributed to improving autolayout behavior and fixing a few small inconsistencies, including code formatting.
iosmacosrich-text-editoreditorplugin-architecture
rjchatfield/rjchatfield.github.io
Nov 2013 - Apr 2015
Contributions:13 commits, 1 push in 1 year 5 months
jekyll
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