OpenGeo the world’s leading commercial open source geospatial company, today announced it has hired Jody Garnett, Tom Kunicki and Scooter Wadsworth to its expanding engineering team. Garnett’s hire builds on the company’s track record of bringing together leaders from a wide array of open source projects.
Garnett joins OpenGeo as a Senior Software engineer and a member on an engineering team full of fellow open source geospatial experts. He sits on the project steering committees for GeoServer, GeoTools and uDig. Garnett is also active in OSGeo and LocationTech, a new working group from Eclipse of which OpenGeo is a founding member.
Garnett has extensive knowledge of Open Geospatial Consortium standards, having participated in numerous OGC test beds, and is an expert with all things concerning GeoServer and GeoTools. OpenGeo has once again drawn an impressive leader from the open source community to join its ranks.
Eddie Pickle, OpenGeo CEO, noted “Jody is a dedicated open source community leader across numerous communities and we’re lucky to have him on board. Aside from being an impressive developer Jody is an experienced educator and consultant. The positive influence he’ll have on our staff, and especially our quickly growing engineering team, will be invaluable.”
Along with Garnett, OpenGeo has hired Tom Kunicki. Kunicki comes to OpenGeo from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) where he actively worked with the components of the OpenGeo Suite and other open source tools. The OpenGeo Suite is a complete geospatial software stack containing all tools necessary to analyze and publish geospatial data, including an integrated spatial database, application server, web client API, and a desktop GIS tool.
Kunicki has particular expertise in Web Processing Service (WPS) and through the web processing with GeoServer. Tom will be leading a workshop on the subject at this year’s international FOSS4G conference in Nottingham.
OpenGeo has also hired Scooter Wadsworth. Wadsworth comes to OpenGeo from Sanborn where he developed geospatial web applications. Scooter will be working on collaborative data management tools like GeoGit out of OpenGeo’s Washington DC office.
“OpenGeo is committed making and supporting the best open source geospatial software available. To do that, you need the best developers. Jody, Tom and Scooter will help us fulfill these goals and I look forward to working with them,” said Juan Marin, OpenGeo CTO.
About OpenGeo
OpenGeo is the world leader for commercial open source geospatial software. Our global customer base uses the OpenGeo Suite, a complete open source geospatial web services stack, to deploy solutions for web mapping, transportation, telecommunications, open government and a diverse range of other solutions. The OpenGeo Suite provides the best, continually updated geo web services platform along with maintenance agreements that include support and training. These agreements provide our customers with superior value and the growing functionality of continually enhanced open source geospatial software.
OpenGeo supports open source communities by employing key developers of PostGIS, GeoServer, and OpenLayers. We are committed to the ideals of open source and aim to bring the best practices of open source software to organizations around the world.
