Andrew Hill
CEO at textile.io
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolAndrew Hill is a CEO and co-founder based in San Francisco with 15 years of experience building mapping and data platforms, currently leading textile.io and helping grow Tableland. He pairs a PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology with algorithm research and practical data-analysis chops to turn biodiversity and scientific questions into scalable location-intelligence products. A hands-on engineer and former Chief Science Officer at CARTO, he has contributed front-end and full-stack work to prominent open-source mapping projects like torque, cartodb, and carto.js—notably adding temporal mapping and time-series UI features. Known for community building and hiring, he blends scientific rigor, product strategy, and technical execution to bridge research, open source, and startup growth.
15 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
University of Colorado at Boulder
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (30)
javascript10
lib10
css10
geospatial10
javascripts10
geolocation10
maps10
google-maps-api10
cartodb9
html59
html49
html9
data-visualization8
frontend-development8
front-end-development8
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
CartoDB/torque
May 2012 - Sep 2015
Temporal mapping for CARTO
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:70 commits, 1 PR, 8 pushes in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily focused on front-end development, implementing and modifying user interface components. They worked on integrating a basemap selector and features like a pause/play button and a time slider. Their changes also involved modifying and integrating a time-series data visualization using the torque library.
mappingtemporalcarto
CartoDB/cartodb
Sep 2011 - Jul 2016
Location Intelligence & Data Visualization tool
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:684 commits, 8 PRs, 18 pushes in 4 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily focused on refactoring and reorganizing components within the `cartodb` repository, a location intelligence and data visualization tool. Their contributions included moving and renaming analysis-related methods within the JavaScript codebase, specifically targeting the `analysis-options.js` file, which suggests they were modifying core analysis configuration options. They also worked on updating and completing sections related to the analyze/predict feature, indicating an involvement in improving the application's analytical capabilities.
visualizationgeospatialgeofencinggeographyh3
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