Steve Mcdonald
IT Specialist at Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Greater Boston United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSteve Mcdonald is an IT specialist with 12 years of experience focused on building and maintaining spatial data portals and search systems. He co-developed OpenGeoPortal at Tufts, an open-source institutional spatial data archive adopted by over a dozen universities, and created the WorldwideGeoWeb as part of his MS in Computer Science. He has extended and supported Harvard's WorldMap during a fellowship and now works on ADS at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Comfortable bridging academia and production environments, he has experience with both open-source and proprietary portal architectures. Based in Greater Boston, he combines deep domain knowledge of geospatial web platforms with practical systems delivery for research-focused organizations.
12 years of coding experience
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Tufts University
Github Skills (52)
openstreetmap10
face10
geotools10
barrier10
geospatial10
geojson10
geographic10
publish10
gis10
explore10
geography10
worldmap10
ads10
solr9
visualize9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
spacemansteve/adsws
Sep 2016 - Jul 2021
ADS web services
Contributions:6 pushes in 4 years 10 months
adsweb-services
spacemansteve/ADSPipelineMsg
Jun 2017 - Jul 2021
Contributions:66 pushes in 4 years 1 month
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