Tristan Damron
Software Engineer In Test Lead at Multi Media, LLC
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
5 years of employment as a software developer
Interdisciplinary Studies Computer Science Geographic Information Systems Communication Studies, Interdisciplinary Studies Computer Science Geographic Information Systems Communication Studies at Western Oregon University
English
Github Skills (38)
deployment-automation10
npm9
docker9
gis9
react8
ansible8
bundler8
geospatial8
nodejs8
executable7
javascript7
typescript7
bun7
maxmind7
jsx7
Programming languages (10)
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/geocml-base-deployment
Jul 2022 - Dec 2022
Source code for a base geoCML deployment
Contributions:5 releases, 16 reviews, 95 commits in 4 months
deploymentgeospatialgisansiblecontainerized-applications
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