Topi Tjukanov
Engineering Manager at Mapbox
Helsinki, Finland
Summary
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Top SchoolTopi Tjukanov is an engineering manager and geospatial specialist with 10 years’ experience building maps, data pipelines and cartographic products for enterprise and government clients. Currently leading Mapbox’s Basemap team, he shapes strategy and delivery for tilesets and visual maps used by hundreds of millions of monthly users across automotive, logistics and consumer apps. He combines hands-on skills in QGIS/PostGIS/ArcGIS and Python with product-minded design experience from senior map design work, bridging visual styling and backend geospatial engineering. His background spans public-sector land use digitalization, open-source GIS contributions, and commercial consulting—giving him a rare mix of policy, business and technical fluency. Fluent in Russian and trained in both geography (BSc/MSc) and business (BBA), he’s equally comfortable in stakeholder workshops or optimizing large-scale geodata pipelines. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic leader who turns complex spatial requirements into polished, production-grade map experiences.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Russian language, Russian language at Saint Petersburg State UniversityBachelor of Business Administration (BBA), International Business and Logistics, Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA), International Business and Logistics at Metropolia AmmattikorkeakouluMaster of Science (M.Sc.), Regional Studies, 5 (Excellent), Master of Science (M.Sc.), Regional Studies, 5 (Excellent) at University of Helsinki
Finnish, English, Russian, Swedish, German
Github Skills (137)
tiles10
mapbox-gl10
wps10
gdal10
geojson10
data-management10
dump10
3d10
spatial10
openstreetmap10
javascript10
ogc10
qgis10
tms10
browser10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
tjukanovt/30DayMapChallenge
Dec 2019 - Jan 2023
Contributions:6 reviews, 24 commits, 19 PRs in 3 years
gis-datadata-visualizationdata-visualization-projectgeospatial-visualizationgis
tjukanovt/tjukanovt.github.io
Jan 2017 - Nov 2022
A bit of a mess. Just a place where I dump GIS stuff I want to share online.
Contributions:1 review, 45 commits, 4 PRs in 5 years 10 months
placebitmesssharedump
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