Sam Libby is a Sr. Principal Technical Consultant and geospatial technologist with 11 years of experience architecting and delivering enterprise GIS solutions for federal, nonprofit, and international development clients. He leads Esri Professional Services' work with nonprofits and UN-system partners, combining program management with hands-on system design, cloud migration, and security architecture. Sam advises civilian federal agencies through the Esri Enterprise Advantage Program, translating long-term strategic goals into scalable ArcGIS Enterprise, Portal, and cloud deployments. He brings deep technical fluency in Python automation, RDBMS tuning, cartographic production, and OpenStreetMap/open-source integrations that streamline disaster response and public health workflows. Known for working on-site when needed, he blends client-facing strategy with practical implementation experience across AWS, Azure, and GCP. Based in Longmont, Colorado, he pairs a geography background with an unusual mix of enterprise security focus and cartographic craftsmanship.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
University of Otago
BA, Geography, BA, Geography at Middlebury College
OptimizeRasters is a set of tools for converting raster data to optimized Tiled TIF or MRF files, moving data to cloud storage, and creating Raster Proxies.
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Sam Libby - Sr. Principal Technical Consultant at Esri