Cole Chapman

Full Stack Software Developer and GIS Practitioner with 5 years of direct experience building geospatial enterprise software. Working in the GIS/Geospatial industry since 2016.

What I Do

Software Engineering

Confidence in working across the stack with a diverse set of languages, tools and frameworks. Comfortability in a variety of SE project roles and skilled in picking up new technologies quickly.

GIS

Adept in geospatial analysis, workflow modelling, operational mapping, web development, scripting, and data presentation. From fundamentals all the way to to integrating an enterprise GIS, I got you covered.

IT and Infrastructure

Networking, security, system admin, hardware, all of the components that are the backbone of software I work with and study regularly.

About Me

Building Software with a Focus on Creating Art

I love all forms of art. Music, food, sports, getting to study different art forms and finding the components that are shared between each craft is something I highly enjoy.

It can often be overlooked, but Software Engineering is art. Just a more complex form of it.

Getting to work with artists who love what they do, and collaborate on projects that have an impact make me happy to go to work on Monday mornings.

Outside of work I like fly fishing small lakes and streams, Fallout, being moderately ok at guitar, and playing fetch with my King-Charles spaniel. He’s great.

Work Experience

2021 - 2024

Application Developer | GIS

I am one of the three developers on our multi tenanted land and workflow management software, Hub Online. A software for digitally accepting building and land use permits and processing them internally in office by Planners and Building Inspectors, among many other functionalities.

As a very small team, I am required to work across the stack as a Full Stack Developer as well as take on additional roles. Fulfilling roles such as Business Analyst, DevOps, QA, Customer Support, and System Admin.

In my time, I have taken the lead and accomplished numerous high-impact applications that have completely revolutionized the way the company conducts internal business. For example, I have successfully created an application that has fully automated the company’s onboarding and termination processes of new hires and terminated employees. I have also developed a company-mandated vacation request application that is now routinely used by every employee at the company. Both of these applications have been recorded to have saved countless hours of time and labour by senior managers and high-investment employees.

On top of this, I am also responsible for a number of GIS systems, tools, and processes within the workplace.

2020 - 2021

GIS Technician

Started in the position performing regular technician duties of data management, maintenance, retrieval, geospatial analysis, report generation and cartographic visualization.

Once my programming skill set was displayed through a series of projects, I was quickly brought onto our in-house software built in the .net framework to build new features and fix bugs of varying complexity.

From there, my daily duties progressively moved away from operational GIS to software development and more complex geospatial software integrations.

2019

Landfill Worker

If you want something, you have to be willing to put on some work boots and put in work. Sometimes literally.

With a limited resume, not being able to leave my home town, along with no government experience, getting the job I wanted by regular means was a long shot. I decided if I could show my skill set, work ethic, drive, and keen ability to exceed expectations, I could be given an opportunity.

I threw my ego in the trash bin, took a calculated risk, put in the work, and achieved my goal.

2017 - 2018

Geomatics Specialist

Performed a variety of tasks developing geometric road designs for road engineering, operational forestry mapping, geospatial analysis, LiDAR scripting, and Python scripting of various tasks.

In this role I also acted as the GIS consulting lead for the Site C Hydro Dam project. With this responsibility I designed a workflow leveraging ArcGIS Online and Collector for ArcGIS paired with a sub-metre GNSS receiver in order to map the boundary line of the forecasted flood zone of the dam.

2017

Programmer

Hired after my internship to work full time contract as a programmer on GE's Smallworld asset management software. The majority of my time was spent working in the Magik programming language on the backend, a language most similar to Java.

When not programming I was most often assigned QAQC of new features and code reviews.

2017

Software Engineering Intern

Learned the fundamentals of Agile software development working on GE's Smallworld software writing in the Magik language (most similar to Java).

For a final project I built a network tracing tool that printed out a csv file of all properties impacted by an unexpected power outage caused by a damaged power line.

Education

Software Development

Micromasters

2022

GIS

Diploma

2016 – 2017

Geography

Degree

2012 – 2017

Enterprise Projects

Cybersecurity

Web Application Security - OWASP Juice Shop

Currently fine tuning my defensive coding and secure system design skills by working through the OWASP Juice Shop challenges on Kali Linux. The end goal is to sharpen my ability to identify and mitigate web application security vulnerabilities more efficiently.

Contact

Email: colechapman1993@gmail.com