Nick Doiron
Work Experience
Civic Hacking
As a 2012 Code for America fellow, I adopted, adapted, and wrote new open source software for Macon, Honolulu, Santa Cruz, and Chicago.
I was a First Place Winner in the 2012 Civic Data Challenge, and was awarded Key to the City of Macon, Georgia.
In 2013, I developed apps with Datamade in Chicago and New Urban Mechanics in Boston.
I continue to do civic hacking through BetaNYC.
Skills:
Web Mapping: Google Maps API, MapBox + TileMill, Leaflet
Programming: HTML / CSS / JavaScript, Node.js, Ruby on Rails, Python
SQL-based Databases: Postgres/PostGIS, MySQL
NoSQL Databases: MongoDB, Neo4j
One Laptop per Child
I traveled to schools in Uganda, Uruguay, Haiti, and Nepal in 2010-2014 to develop and teach new educational activities.
Working in the field and remotely with other deployments, I wrote mapping, science, and language programs which run on One Laptop per Child's Linux laptops.
In late 2012 / early 2013 I helped start OLPC's teacher training program in the Marshall Islands.
Skills: Python, HTML / CSS / JavaScript, Linux, OpenStreetMap, Internationalization and Localization
Open Source
Selected features added and fixes made on GitHub
- Marshallese language input for Wikimedia's IME (JS)
- Expand API for OpenPGPjs (JS)
- Mobile-responsive CSS for GlobaLeaks (CSS)
- Summarize page updates from the FISA Court (Ruby)
- Set commit times in GeoGit (Java)
- Support and detect multiple languages in Bitcoin Proof of Existence (Python)
- Support and detect multiple languages for distributed messaging app Twister (JS)
Cartography
Visual and technical
MajuroJS - custom neighborhood maps. Stores 3.7MM buildings in 21 cities.
Moon Map - a web map only readable outdoors, at night, during a full moon
Boston Greenery - custom Boston basemap
Van Gogh Map - powered by MapBox's WebGL API
olpcMAP - school and volunteer map hosted on Google App Engine
Taking on Hard Problems
Open source projects with impact
