Tristan Damron
QA Engineer II at The geoCML Project
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTristan Damron is a QA Engineer II and software-oriented data analyst with 11 years of experience building and testing GIS-focused products from education to enterprise. Based in Portland, he blends hands-on testing, Python scripting, and ArcGIS/QGIS expertise to validate complex spatial workflows across ArcGIS Pro, Enterprise, and REST services. He founded The geoCML Project, producing open-source GIS tools like Tabor and DRGON, signaling a strong commitment to community-driven geo software. Tristan’s background in interdisciplinary computer science, GIS, and communication informs his ability to translate stakeholder needs into reliable test plans and clear user-facing documentation. He has progressed from manual testing and technical writing to leading software engineering in test roles, retaining a practical developer’s mindset alongside QA leadership. Outside formal roles he remains an active “computer person” contributor, combining pedagogy and engineering to make geospatial tooling more accessible.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Interdisciplinary Studies, MULTI/INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES, Interdisciplinary Studies, MULTI/INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES at Western Oregon University
English
Github Skills (36)
information-architecture10
hugo9
asciidoc9
gis9
deployment-automation9
docker8
react8
maxmind8
ansible8
npm8
geospatial8
nodejs7
javascript7
geoserver7
open-source7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
geoCML/tigre
Feb 2025 - Apr 2025
TIGRE is a Tool Integrated GIS with a REPL Environment
Contributions:50 PRs, 58 pushes, 29 branches in 1 month
geoCML/tabor
Oct 2022 - Sep 2025
Tabor is a database modeling language for GIS
Contributions:5 releases, 40 PRs, 100 pushes in 2 years 10 months
databasegiscommand-linedatabase-modelingpostgis
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