Roland Hansson
Partner, Director Of Technology at DCR Design
Redlands, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRoland Hansson is a seasoned GIS and cartography technologist with 11+ years delivering spatial data solutions and wayfinding, public transit, and pedestrian mobility analyses as Partner and Director of Technology at DCR Design. He combines deep domain expertise from product work at ESRI with hands-on full-stack development—Python, PostGIS, JavaScript, R—and a history of inventing novel algorithms and authentication methods through his consulting firm Nova Spatial. Roland’s work spans enterprise GIS, map simplification research, mobile geodata collection apps, and geospatial web apps integrating R/OpenCPU, reflecting both academic training in earth sciences and image processing and decades of practical system design. Based in Redlands, he marries a lifelong passion for orienteering and historical maps with pragmatic solutions for modern navigation and active-transport planning. Known among peers as a meticulous map maker, he uniquely blends cartographic craftsmanship with scalable data engineering.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Earth Sciences, B.S., Earth Sciences at Lund UniversityOracle 10g: Program with PL/SQL, Oracle 10g: Program with PL/SQL at University of California, RiversideImage Processing and Computer Graphics, Image Processing and Computer Graphics at Halmstad University
Swedish, English
Github Skills (12)
marker8
geospatial6
mediawiki-extension6
sailfishos6
gis4
mapper4
openstreetmap4
maps4
qt4
svg1
geojson1
topojson1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
rhansson/testgt1
Jan 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:39 pushes, 9 branches in 11 months
rhansson/California_2016_Election_precinct_data
Mar 2017 - Mar 2017
Contributions:31 pushes, 1 branch in 4 days
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