Ryan Whitley
Senior Software Engineering Manager at Planet
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolRyan Whitley is a Senior Software Engineering Manager with over two decades of experience delivering geospatial and data-driven software, currently leading Planet’s Customer Onboarding team to accelerate access to satellite imagery and automate user provisioning. He has a strong track record building self-service tooling, centralized product catalogs, and scalable ETL and map-data systems across organizations like Tableau, Salesforce, NASA, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Ryan blends full-stack technical fluency—PostGIS, Mapbox vector tiles, Node.js and cloud-hosted production services—with cross-functional leadership of engineers, data engineers, and PMs to ship reliable mapping and analytics features. He’s also a people-first leader who founded internal coaching practices at Planet and Salesforce and actively mentors technologists of color. A Seattle-based pragmatist with a BA in Geography and a Certificate in Negotiation Mastery from Harvard Business School Online, he pairs domain expertise in earth-data with thoughtful stakeholder-centric delivery. Less obvious: he started his career building custom GeoJSON/vector-tile tooling and plugins that informed later enterprise mapping integrations.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
B.A., Geography, Earth and Space Sciences, B.A., Geography, Earth and Space Sciences at University of WashingtonCertificate in Negotiation Mastery, Certificate in Negotiation Mastery at Harvard Business School OnlineSpanaway Lake High School
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Github Skills (65)
mapbox-gl10
geojson10
rest-api10
openstreetmap10
qt10
rest10
vector-tiles10
nodejs10
sos10
qt-application10
native-android10
html5-canvas10
ogc9
osgeo9
opengl9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
spatialdev/phantasm
Jun 2014 - Mar 2015
Phantasm is a node.js web service for printing html web pages and is mainly a wrapper around phantomjs.
Contributions:12 commits, 6 pushes, 1 tag in 9 months
nodejsphantomjswebservice
locana-co/PGRestAPI
Jul 2013 - Jun 2015
Node.js REST API for PostGres Spatial Entities. AKA: SpatialServer
Contributions:155 commits, 2 PRs, 22 pushes in 1 year 11 months
nodejspostgresqlrestrest-api
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