Summary
Yuxiao Zhao is a Senior Product Engineer at Esri with eight years of experience building and testing geoprocessing and conflation tools for ArcGIS Pro. With dual master’s degrees in Computer Science and Geographic Information Science from The Ohio State University, she combines strong spatial analysis expertise with software engineering practices. Her work spans prototyping automation scripts in Python/ArcPy, developing robust workflow tools, and designing evaluation tests that bridge product requirements and user-focused GIS workflows. Previously she applied machine learning to transit and parking problems at Smart Columbus and taught large GIS labs, showing a rare mix of applied research, teaching, and product development. Based in Ontario, California, she’s known for turning complex spatial data challenges into reliable, testable tools that improve map and feature change detection.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Geography, 3.8/4.0, Bachelor's degree, Geography, 3.8/4.0 at Wuhan University
Master's degree, Computer Science and Engineering, Master's degree, Computer Science and Engineering at The Ohio State University
English, Chinese, French