Tamas Szekeres
Prominent IT Specialist at HM Elektronikai, Logisztikai és Vagyonkezelő Zrt.
Hungary
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Top SchoolTamas Szekeres is a seasoned IT specialist and software engineer with over 20 years of experience building embedded, mobile and web systems, specializing in GPS-based vehicle tracking, remote sensing and wireless communications. He combines low-level C/C++ and C# expertise with .NET, PHP and Java development and strong database design and integration skills. A long-time contributor to flagship geospatial open-source projects like GDAL, QGIS and MapServer, he has improved MSSQL spatial drivers, geometry parsing and error handling—work that impacts many GIS users worldwide. His background in radar and signal processing from earlier R&D roles complements his production-focused work, enabling robust solutions for military and commercial telemetry systems. Trained as an electrical engineer at Budapest University of Technology and Economics, he brings rare cross-domain depth spanning hardware, embedded software and backend geospatial engineering.
20 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
M. Sc. El. Engineer, M. Sc. El. Engineer at Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Github Skills (18)
c-language10
lib10
qgis10
geographical-information-system10
databases10
code-library10
odbc10
c1110
spatial-data10
c1710
gis10
sql10
mssql10
mapserver10
spatial10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
MapServer/MapServer
Mar 2006 - Jan 2023
Source code of the MapServer project. Please submit pull requests to the 'main' branch.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 678 commits, 84 PRs in 17 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Tamas primarily focused on enhancing the MapServer library's error handling and core functionality. They implemented the addition of displayable error messages by adding functions, specifically focusing on the "msGetErrorString" function, and adding the "msAddErrorDisplayString" function to read the displayable messages separately. Further contributions included adding support for multiple error messages in various mapscript components. They also created C# typemaps.
sososgeosubmitogc-serviceswms
OSGeo/gdal
Sep 2006 - Nov 2022
GDAL is an open source MIT licensed translator library for raster and vector geospatial data formats.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 793 commits, 55 PRs in 16 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Tamas primarily contributed to the MSSQL spatial driver, addressing various issues related to the correct parsing and handling of geometries. The user made several bug fixes, including problems with identity inserts, schema handling, the recognition of 3D geometries, and the reading of multi-point geometries. They also implemented support for WKB geometry uploads and added the option to expose the FID column as a feature attribute.
licensedrasteriogeospatialrasterdata-formats
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