Tom Chadwin
Senior Full-Stack Consultant at Astun Technology Ltd
Falstone, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolTom Chadwin is a Senior Full-Stack Consultant with 12 years in geospatial software and a long track record of delivering open-source, standards-driven mapping solutions using JavaScript/Node, Python and the spatial stack (PostGIS, GeoServer, QGIS). Based in rural Northumberland, he combines hands-on engineering with client liaison and product leadership—having led platform upgrades for high-traffic cloud basemapping services and steered core product releases. An original developer of the widely used qgis2web plugin and active QGIS documentation contributor, he is a charter member of OSGeo, a QGIS voting member, and co-chaired FOSS4GUK 2018, demonstrating deep community stewardship. His background spans public-sector ICT leadership and web systems architecture, managing teams, budgets and complex national collaborations for UK parks and local government. Tom’s mix of technical authorship, operational delivery and a humanities MPhil from Cambridge gives him an uncommon blend of clarity, documentation skill and domain-focused curiosity.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
MA, Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic, First, MA, Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic, First at University of CambridgeMaster of Philosophy (M.Phil.), Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic, Master of Philosophy (M.Phil.), Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic at Cambridge University
French
Stackoverflow
151reputation
1kreached
4answers
5questions
Github Skills (15)
rs10
qgis10
documentation10
user-guide10
technical-writing10
e-mail6
dockerhub6
html6
iframe6
pyqt6
javascript6
aws-cloudformation6
amazon-ecs6
amazon-web-services6
cdo-message6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
qgis/QGIS-Documentation
Dec 2015 - Feb 2019
QGIS Documentation
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:13 commits, 10 PRs, 118 comments in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Tom's contributions primarily involve making improvements and corrections to the QGIS documentation. They addressed issues related to email visibility in plugin documentation, as well as general language improvements and simplification throughout the user guide, focusing on clarity and accuracy. The user also updated and refined content within the "Getting Started" section and the general tools section, enhancing the overall quality of the documentation.
pythonqgisrst
tomchadwin/tom.chadw.in
Nov 2018 - Dec 2024
Contributions:569 pushes, 2 branches in 6 years 2 months
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