Tim Sutton
Partner At Kartoza LDA, Portugal
Marvao, Portalegre, Portugal
Summary
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Top expert inGeospatial Technology and Web Mapping
Tim Sutton is a seasoned GIS software engineer and entrepreneur with 22 years of experience, currently a Partner at Kartoza in Portugal. He blends hands-on full‑stack development, DevOps and technical writing—contributing bug fixes and UI improvements to the flagship QGIS project while maintaining critical documentation and website content. Tim also builds and maintains production-grade PostGIS Docker images and automation scripts that streamline spatial database deployment. Based in Marvão and known as a "GeoNerd" on GitHub, he pairs deep open-source pedigree with commercial consulting experience from running his own firm. His work shows a rare combination of user-facing UX fixes, tooling and docs improvements that keep large GIS ecosystems both usable and deployable.
22 years of coding experience
Github Skills (38)
content-management-system10
docker10
develop10
c-language10
postgresql10
restructuredtext10
web-application10
qt10
qgis10
scripting10
rs10
dockers10
script10
postgis10
front-end-development10
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
kartoza/docker-postgis
May 2014 - Mar 2018
Dockerfile for postgis
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:5 reviews, 123 commits, 51 PRs in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Tim primarily focused on the setup and configuration of a Dockerized PostgreSQL environment. Their contributions included creating scripts for initializing the database, configuring SSL, and defining the deployment process with Docker. They also developed scripts to manage the container, allowing for the creation and redeployment of PostGIS instances. This work streamlined the deployment and management of the PostGIS database within a Docker context.
dockerfiledockerpostgispostgrespostgresql
qgis/QGIS
Dec 2003 - Feb 2022
QGIS is a free, open source, cross platform (lin/win/mac) geographical information system (GIS)
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 6626 commits, 90 PRs in 18 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Tim contributed to the QGIS project by addressing issues related to the user interface and application behavior. They fixed a bug causing the news feed to become invisible, and improved the workflow of the first-run dialog. Furthermore, the user added support to suppress the bad layers handler on startup and updated the CLI help. These changes involved modifications across multiple source files, including application UI and core functionalities.
spatiallinwmsgeotoolsgis
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