Russ Biggs
Director Of Technology at OpenAQ Inc
Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
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Top SchoolRuss Biggs is a Director of Technology with 11 years of experience building geospatial, web, and mobile systems from Albuquerque, New Mexico. He leads engineering at OpenAQ, applying deep GIS expertise from a Master's in Geographic Information Systems Technology to environmental and humanitarian data projects. His background spans software engineering and technical project management across NGOs and consultancy—work that includes building mapping and transport data tools for SharedStreets and Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team. Known for bridging field-driven GIS needs with production-grade web services, he is comfortable shipping APIs, spatial pipelines, and user-facing apps. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex geospatial requirements into maintainable architectures that support public-interest datasets. Outside work his career path reflects a practical blend of research, field mapping, and product-focused engineering rather than a purely academic or startup trajectory.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Arizona
English, Italian, Turkish, Spanish
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Github Skills (146)
jsreport10
curb10
api10
odk10
solid-start10
usps10
async9
in-progress9
openstreetmap9
crowd9
reactivity9
tessellation9
rest9
swagger-ui9
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Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
russbiggs/spot-the-box
Aug 2020 - Oct 2020
Web application to crowd source the status of USPS Collection Boxes
Contributions:2 releases, 111 commits, 8 PRs in 1 month
uspsweb-appweb-applicationstatusboxes
openaq/openaq-python
Oct 2023 - Jul 2026
Official OpenAQ Python SDK
Contributions:9 releases, 2 reviews, 57 PRs in 2 years 9 months
pythonair-qualityapiopenaq
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