Ryan Whitley
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 (100)
tiles10
mapbox-gl10
gdal10
geojson10
sailfishos10
spatial10
api10
vector-tiles10
sos10
html5-canvas10
geopackage10
mvt10
offline-maps9
qt9
openstreetmap9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
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
apinode-jsspatialnodejspostgres
AmericanRedCross/GeoForce
Apr 2014 - Aug 2015
Contributions:339 commits, 3 PRs, 108 pushes in 1 year 3 months
salesforcespatial
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