Thomas Hervey
Adjunct Professor at University of San Francisco
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolThomas Hervey is an adjunct professor and geospatial product engineer with a decade of experience building search and data platforms that help policymakers and environmental managers find and use spatial data. He holds a PhD in Geography from UCSB and has a track record at Esri of improving map-based search, scalable download pipelines, and engagement metrics across large public Hub deployments. Thomas blends hands-on front-end work—contributing UI improvements to the widely used OpenStreetMap iD editor—with product leadership that aligned roadmaps and KPIs for teams of 30+. He teaches applied statistics and geospatial analytics in San Francisco, connecting lab-based R programming to real-world environmental decision-making. Notably, his work has driven measurable outcomes such as a 20% uplift in search engagement and the delivery of public APIs supporting 20,000+ daily interactions. He brings a rare mix of academic rigor, open-source contribution, and production-grade engineering focused on geographic information retrieval and spatial cognition.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Arts - MA, Geography, Master of Arts - MA, Geography at UC Santa BarbaraUMBCDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Geography, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Geography at University of California, Santa Barbara
English
Github Skills (8)
mappings10
editors10
uid10
javascript10
d3js10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
editor10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
openstreetmap/iD
May 2018 - Aug 2019
🆔 The easy-to-use OpenStreetMap editor in JavaScript.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:216 commits, 8 PRs, 142 pushes in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Thomas primarily contributed to the UI of the OpenStreetMap editor. Their commits focused on improving the user interface, specifically adjusting the placement of tooltips and adding new toggle elements related to map data, such as map data notes. Furthermore, the user's work involved refactoring and formatting existing UI elements. These changes indicate an active role in enhancing the usability and visual presentation of the editor's features.
javascriptopenstreetmapd3editormapping
thomas-hervey/dev-setup
Jan 2016 - Sep 2019
Contributions:73 pushes in 3 years 8 months
herokupythonvimeasy-setupdeveloper-tools
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