Zeev Stadler
Co-Founder at Israel Hiking Map
Israel
Summary
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Top SchoolZeev Stadler is a veteran software leader and co-founder with 25+ years of development experience and more than two decades of management, known for turning disordered teams into high-performing R&D organizations. He blends deep technical expertise in verification, distributed systems, and tooling with operational rigor—having led multi-site, cross-geography teams at Intel, Cadence, CEVA and in his long-running Israel Hiking Map project. Zeev drives product-focused engineering outcomes across compiler and DSP toolchains, verification metrics, and map/databas e engineering, and he brings hands-on contributions to open-source geospatial projects like OpenMapTiles and MapTiler where he improved containerization, deployment, and transport-layer data modeling. Practical and process-oriented, he introduced agile, quality and metric-driven practices that improved delivery and customer satisfaction at scale. Based in Israel with an M.Sc. from Technion, he combines academic grounding with entrepreneurial curiosity, encouraging crowd-sourced mapping and community-driven product growth.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc., Computer Science, M.Sc., Computer Science at Technion - Israel Institute of TechnologyHigh School Graduate, Electronics, High School Graduate, Electronics at Junior Technical College at the Technion (Bosmat)
Hebrew, English
Github Skills (27)
webgl10
javascript10
docker10
postgresql10
mapbox-gl10
testing10
vector-tiles10
typescript10
bash10
dockers10
sql10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
maplibre-gl10
openstreetmap9
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
openmaptiles/openmaptiles
Feb 2019 - Jul 2022
OpenMapTiles Vector Tile Schema Implementation
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer / Database Engineer
Back-end Developer / Database EngineerContributions:15 reviews, 50 commits, 55 PRs in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Zeev's primary contribution focused on enhancing the transportation layer within the OpenMapTiles vector tile schema. They added new attributes for various modes of transport (bicycle, foot, horse, MTB), as well as features for the intermittent field. The user also refactored and updated SQL code across several files. In addition, they have performed data modelling and database schema updates.
openstreetmapopenmaptilestilemaptilevector-tile
maptiler/tileserver-gl
Jan 2020 - Dec 2022
Vector and raster maps with GL styles. Server side rendering by MapLibre GL Native. Map tile server for MapLibre GL JS, Android, iOS, Leaflet, OpenLayers, GIS via WMTS, etc.
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:2 reviews, 8 commits, 11 PRs in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Zeev focused on improving the containerization and deployment aspects of the tileserver-gl project, with emphasis on Docker. They addressed issues related to configuration reloading within Docker containers by modifying the entrypoint script and documentation. Furthermore, the user implemented a Docker healthcheck, ensuring the container's proper functioning, and improved reloading capabilities.
rastermapbox-glios-androidandroid-jsios
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