Will Rynearson
Product Manager at Development Seed
Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland
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Top SchoolWill Rynearson is a product manager with 16 years of experience blending data, product strategy, and public policy to create more livable, resilient systems. Based in Lucerne and currently at Development Seed, he pairs hands-on technical contributions—front-end UX fixes for Mapbox's popular Maki icon set and back-end improvements to the Carto stylesheet renderer—with cross-disciplinary product leadership. His academic background spans an MS from the University of Geneva and an MPA from Tsinghua, reflecting a rare mix of technical rigor and policy-savvy decision making. Comfortable shipping code and defining strategy, he focuses on pragmatic, user-centered solutions for spatial data and development challenges.
16 years of coding experience
Master of Science - MS, Master of Science - MS at University of GenevaCertificate of Mandarin Chinese, Certificate of Mandarin Chinese at Shanghai Fisheries UniversityMaster of Public Administration - MPA, Master of Public Administration - MPA at Tsinghua UniversityBachelor of Science (B.S.), Bachelor of Science (B.S.) at Montana State University-Bozeman
English, Chinese, French
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Github Skills (11)
css10
error-handling10
javascript10
ui-design10
file-icons10
iconsets10
html9
mapnik9
svg8
architecture8
architectures8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
mapbox/maki
Jun 2012 - Aug 2012
A POI Icon Set
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Will primarily focused on improving the user interface of the Maki icon set website. Their work included fixing CSS classes, adjusting the page title, restructuring the repository to improve layout, and fixing the site's appearance on retina displays. Additionally, the user was involved in merging branches and removing copyright notices. These changes directly contribute to the user experience and visual presentation of the icon set.
svgiconmakiicon-setpoi
mapbox/carto
May 2011 - Sep 2011
fast CSS-like map stylesheets
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Will's commits primarily involve improvements to the `carto` library, focusing on the internal workings of stylesheet rendering and error handling. They addressed issues related to downloading external data sources, corrected error propagation within the rendering pipeline, and added more descriptive error messages. The user also refactored code to rename attributes to properties, and generally maintained code quality.
mmlmapboxcssjavascriptstylesheets
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