Torben Barsballe
Professional Services Engineer at Planet
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolTorben Barsballe is a Professional Services Engineer with 11 years of software engineering experience, based in Victoria, BC, currently working at Planet. He brings deep back-end expertise in geospatial Java projects, contributing to flagship open-source repositories like GeoServer, GeoTools, and GeoWebCache where he has implemented WFS/WMTS features, vector tile support, and improved documentation and tutorials. His background as a technical lead at Boundless and early work at Planet Federal reflect a blend of hands-on coding, API design, and customer-focused delivery. Trained in physics and computer science at the University of Victoria, he combines strong systems thinking with practical attention to developer workflows and security in core geospatial stacks. Colleagues value him for quietly improving maintainability and usability—examples include modernizing tutorial examples for Java 11 and refining style editor and REST integrations that streamline downstream user work.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Physics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Physics and Computer Science at University of Victoria
Github Skills (20)
api-rest10
geotools10
api-design10
restful-api10
java10
javas10
maven10
rest-api10
json9
configuration-management9
jtest9
junit9
documentation9
xml9
wms8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
geoserver/geoserver
Oct 2014 - Sep 2021
Official GeoServer repository
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 1040 commits, 574 PRs in 6 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Torben's commits primarily focus on implementing backend logic, specifically involving the enhancement of the GeoServer WFS API and related components. The contributions involve adding new features for the WMTS layers, with updates to the existing UI and REST implementation. The user has made several additions to the style editor, including adding new features for style groups and enhancing their handling to improve user workflow. The commits also show an understanding of core GeoServer configurations and security, as indicated by handling of API updates.
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geotools/geotools
Dec 2014 - Aug 2022
Official GeoTools repository
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 9 reviews, 325 commits in 7 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Torben appears to be a back-end developer contributing to the GeoTools project. Their commits primarily focus on modifying Java tutorial files within the docs directory and updating code examples. They made improvements to several tutorial code examples, including adding support for Java 11 and enhancing the WMS and NetCDF examples. They also worked on various bug fixes and style improvements in the modules, suggesting a focus on code maintenance and improving the project's documentation and usability.
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