Simon Miles
Senior GIS Support Specialist at The Loose Goat - Maps, Data and More
Woking, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolSimon Miles is a Senior GIS Support Specialist with 11 years' experience helping public and private sector organisations get more from spatial data through QGIS, PostGIS, APIs, Node.js and AWS. He runs a GIS consultancy, The Loose Goat, providing training, mentoring and bespoke map/data solutions while also delivering enterprise support and development at Geoxphere. Simon blends hands-on administration of large Postgres/PostGIS estates and QGIS user support with practical ETL and web-mapping skills (Leaflet, GDAL, FME), and has a track record of building reusable, open-source-friendly tooling and APIs. He’s lectured on QGIS at university level and has led migrations and integrations across MSSQL, Oracle, Azure and AWS, making complex geodata accessible to non-technical teams. Based in Woking, he favors a “create once, share many” approach that emphasizes reuse, automation and pragmatic project delivery.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
2.1, Archaeological Practice, 2.1, Archaeological Practice at University of Winchester
Github Skills (22)
qgis5
location4
esxi3
leaflet3
gps3
vmware2
bitnami2
plugin2
vcenter2
vms2
python1
kubernetes1
gps-tracking1
vsphere1
survey1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
geosmiles/geosmiles.github.io
Jul 2015 - Nov 2016
Contributions:1 PR, 44 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 4 months
geosmiles/hello-world
Apr 2016 - Apr 2016
Contributions:9 pushes in 1 day
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