Zhi He
Senior Application Developer
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZhi He is a Senior Application Developer with 11 years of experience building spatial data tools, maps, and civic tech applications across government and nonprofit sectors in New York. Skilled in ArcGIS, QGIS, Python, JavaScript, and SQL, Zhi has delivered production data pipelines and interactive visualizations for organizations including the U.S. Census Bureau, BetaNYC, and CUNY’s Mapping Service. Their work blends urban planning training (MUP) with hands-on software engineering, enabling practical, policy-relevant geospatial analysis. Known for translating messy civic data into usable maps and apps, Zhi has a track record of prototyping internal tools for city agencies and contributing to open data projects. They currently split responsibilities between senior application development and senior data engineering roles, reflecting a balance of front-end mapping expertise and backend data infrastructure. Zhi’s background suggests a knack for turning community-focused requirements into robust, reusable geospatial solutions.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Urban Planning (MUP) Community Planning and Advocacy, Master of Urban Planning (MUP) Community Planning and Advocacy at Hunter CollegeFrancis Lewis High School
Github Skills (66)
nyc10
geojson10
javascript10
statistics10
boundaries10
fips10
census10
overlapping10
querying10
clojurescript10
openstreetmap9
geography9
google-sheets9
gis9
aggregates8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
zhik/MTA-Mass-Transit
Oct 2019 - Apr 2020
Scripts to convert MTA Static Data feeds into shapefiles
Contributions:6 commits, 1 push in 5 months
feedsmtashapefilesstatic-datadata-feeds
BetaNYC/nyc-boundaries
Nov 2019 - Jan 2023
The NYC Boundaries Map – is an open source tool for viewing and querying overlapping administrative boundaries in NYC.
Contributions:119 commits, 53 PRs, 77 pushes in 3 years 3 months
boundariescommunity-districtsadministrative-boundariesqueryingmap
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