Richard Welty
Chief Technology Officer at Salesium
Town of Sand Lake, New York, United States
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Top SchoolRichard Welty is a seasoned technology leader and CTO with over a decade of experience spanning software development, network engineering, systems administration, and data center construction. He currently leads engineering at Salesium while running a long-standing consulting practice focused on GIS, OpenStreetMap, network security, and open source solutions. Richard blends hands-on technical depth—from Lisp-era image analysis and Java/database systems to modern cloud and GIS tooling—with strategic engineering management across startups and enterprise research teams. An active contributor to historical and participatory mapping projects, he applies cartographic rigor to complex spatial datasets, including detailed reconstructions of historical events and world's fairs. Outside of work he brings disciplined operational safety experience from long-term roles in motorsports technical inspection and leadership in local civic organizations.
12 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteSt. Petersburg High School
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Github Skills (37)
openstreetmap9
mapnik9
cartocss9
tiles7
mosaic6
geotiff6
wms6
geofence5
command-line-tool5
imagery5
wps5
uploader5
mediawiki-extension5
editors5
tms4
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
OpenHistoricalMap/examples
May 2015 - Jul 2019
Contributions:11 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 2 months
boundaryissues/TIGER2014
Sep 2014 - Jan 2015
Contributions:126 commits, 1 push in 4 months
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