Wesley Porter
Sr. Location Data Operations Analyst
Nashville-Davidson, Tennessee, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWesley Porter is a Sr. Location Data Operations Analyst with 10 years of experience building reliable geospatial data systems and automations that turn messy location signals into production-ready datasets. At Indeed he’s reduced experimentation runtimes from days to minutes by containerizing routing engines and built Python tooling to evaluate and improve geocoders while leading global location database cleanup. A practiced geospatial engineer and open-source contributor, he’s extended the popular alltheplaces scraper suite with Scrapy spiders that extract addresses and coordinates into GeoJSON. Wesley pairs rigorous GIS and geoscience training (M.S., 4.0) with hands-on coding—equally comfortable writing ArcPy to fix census errors or crafting backend scrapers—bringing a research mindset to operational data challenges.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Geology, 3.91, Bachelor’s Degree, Geology, 3.91 at University of Tennessee-KnoxvilleMasters of Science in Professional Science: Geosciences, Geographic Information Systems, 4.0, Masters of Science in Professional Science: Geosciences, Geographic Information Systems, 4.0 at Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU)LIBERAL ARTS AND SCIENCES, GENERAL STUDIES AND HUMANITIES, LIBERAL ARTS AND SCIENCES, GENERAL STUDIES AND HUMANITIES at University of Tennessee at Martin
Github Skills (9)
scraper10
scrapy10
spider10
python10
webscraping10
geojson9
json9
api8
apim8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
alltheplaces/alltheplaces
Dec 2018 - Apr 2022
A set of spiders and scrapers to extract location information from places that post their location on the internet.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:117 commits, 92 PRs, 8 pushes in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Wesley primarily contributed by adding and modifying Python scripts that function as web scrapers. The code utilizes the Scrapy framework to extract location information, including addresses, coordinates, and other relevant details, from various websites. The user's work focuses on creating spiders for specific businesses, integrating with APIs, and parsing data to populate a GeoJSON structure. These contributions significantly expand the repository's functionality for extracting location data.
pythonscrapyspiderscraperslocation
wessport/Geoalchemist
Nov 2017 - Aug 2022
A repository for my personal website generated with Hugo.
Contributions:5 PRs, 174 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 10 months
hugohugo-theme
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