The Bounding Box: Recent Episodes
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This week, we get to speak to Harry Pamu, Principal Software Dev at Esri!
What happens when a software engineer turns every hobby into an obsession? Harry Pamu joins The Bounding Box to talk about AI, software development, cooking, continuous learning, and how curiosity has shaped both his career and personal growth.
- World Central Kitchen - Harsha is part of their Chef Relief Corps and volunteered at Pasadena City college and Convention center helping prepare and distribute meals for the affected communities during the recent 2025 fires.
- Harsha Pamu - Harry's portfolio site
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I am excited to showcase one of my early mentors in GIS, really my first mentor in GIS, Sean Christian, who has over 30+ years experience as a Professional Engineer at the Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts. Sean championed GIS, not just at the Districts, but along with many others in Los Angeles County during the early days of inter-agency collaboration on GIS data, training, and tooling!
Sean has taken his years of experience to now teach GIS and continue to be a mentor to generations of GIS professionals!
- Rio Hondo GIS
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In this episode, I have the great pleasure of talking to one of my mentors in this industry - Warren Roberts, educator and all around great guy!
GIS isn’t just for geographers. In this episode of The Bounding Box, Warren Roberts explains why GIS is one of the most valuable cross-disciplinary skills today, from crime analysis to biology to music festivals, and how students can prepare for real-world careers.
- Rio Hondo GIS
- Claremont Colleges GIS
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In this episode, Nick Franchino, GIS Manager for LA County Planning, discusses how his team is using story maps, LARIAC imagery, open data, and dashboards to prepare for the LA28 Olympics. He explains jurisdictional challenges across 88 cities, transportation planning (including shuttle routes and games route networks), venue naming complexities, and the importance of digital twins for event planning and operations.
Nick also shares practical advice for GIS professionals: identify gaps, build tools that help your community, and pursue passion projects that add long-term value beyond the event.
- LARIAC
- LA28 StoryMap
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Today, I'm talking to Daniel Smith, Sr. Solution Architect at Wherobots and long time geo-wizard! He talks about what happens when your geospatial data goes from a few shapefiles to 40 terabytes a day. We cover everything from snapping messy GPS data to roads, to running spatial joins on billions of points in seconds, and even how not making maps can still be very, very geo. Plus, Daniel drops some real advice for anyone trying to break into the space. Sensors, satellites, squirrels... it’s all in here.
- Wherobots
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In this episode, we talk to Christopher Moravec, CTO at Dymaptic. Christopher has been working in GIS for a while and has been exploring using AI for various purposes, especially in some not so obvious ways! This episode is full of AI goodies, and even some talk on "vibe coding"!
- Check out Dymaptic on LinkedIn
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We have a great guest this week! Andrew Middleton, the owner and curator for The Map Center in New England! Andrew took a risk and he's doing some great work to bring maps to people and show that not just old maps are cool, but new maps and new stories are are still relevant today!
- The Map Center - mapcenter.com
- Linktree - linktr.ee/Ecoandrewtrc
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Talking to Raul Jimenez Ortega today! He's the Developer Relations lead at Esri. Raul ha always been involved in working with the GeoDev community and helping users find the resources they need!
- Esri Developer and Technology Summit
- Esri Developer Site
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In this episode, I talk to Amy Niessen, Developer Community Manager at Esri! Amy has helped build and foster the Esri Developer community for years, in-person and online! Amy talks about how the early communities started, the importance of developer communities and the larger Developer Technology Summit, and developers at the User Conference.
- Esri Developer and Technology Summit
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I'm excited to talk to Joseph Kerski Phd GISP, Educational Manager at Esri! Joseph is an author and educator who helps educators and students get the most benefits from GIS and Geography in their curriculum. He talks about some of his successes and challenges in education, the current landscape of spatial technology in schools and where it could be going in the future!
- Spatial Reserves
- Teaching Mathematics Using Interactive Mapping
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I'm talking to Glenn Letham, Partner Network Community Manager at Esri! Glenn is a pro in the GIS industry with decades of experience. Glenn talks about community, education and how GIS and location technology has creeped its way into many corners of our every day lives!
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Please welcome Kitty Hurley to the podcast today! Kitty is a senior Product Engineer on the Calcite Design team at Esri! Kitty discusses how she helps to manage a large project that is used by so many apps and the ArcGIS Online site. She digs into some topics around Accessibility and design systems!
- Calcite Design System: https://developers.arcgis.com/calcite-design-system
- Maps SDK for JS goTo animation in 4.30: https://developers.arcgis.com/javascript/latest/release-notes/#mapviewgoto-animation
- Building accessibility into your apps: https://developers.arcgis.com/calcite-design-system/foundations/accessibility/
- Maps SDK for JS accessibility: https://developers.arcgis.com/javascript/latest/accessibility/
- What's New in ArcGIS Dashboards: https://www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/products/ops-dashboard/announcements/discover-whats-new-in-arcgis-dashboards-june-2024/
- WebAIM Survey #10 (December 2023) - Finding information: https://webaim.org/projects/screenreadersurvey10/#finding
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I'm pleased to welcome Andy Gup, Senior Product Engineer at Esri, today! I've known Andy a long time, even before joining Esri and he has a long history in the web mapping game!
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We have Omar Kawach on the podcast this week! Omar is a Senior Product Engineer at Esri, and he's a science nerd at heart! He helps keep the ArcGIS Maps SDK for JavaScript components project running smoothly. We talk web components, Storybook and some gotchas working on large projects!
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In this episode, I get to talk to two Andrews! Andrew Green is a Product Manager/Cartographer at Esri, and Andrew Skinner is a Cartographer, both working on basemaps and the vector tile maps used every single day! They are both veterans of the early web mapping days, before Google Maps and ArcGIS Online with plenty of great knowledge about how people use maps and how to make them!
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I had a great time talking to Dario D'Amico, graphics wiz Software Dev at Esri! Dario makes a lot of the awesome visualizations like flow rendering in the ArcGIS Maps SDK for JS possible! Dario talks about graphics engines, working on building awesome maps, and his brief, but remarkable stint as a game developer!
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I'm excited in this episode to talk to Dylan Schiemann, an early creator in the Web and JavaScript space. Dylan has his hands full, but took some time to talk to me about his current ventures, conferences, and some awesome productivity tips!
- Living Spec
- HalfStack
- SlateJS
- Neurosity
- Remarkable
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Our guest this week is Courtney Yatteau, a Developer Advocate at Esri! Courtney has a great background for what she does as a Developer Advocate and engaging with users. She breaks down how she does that and some of her current adventures!
dev.to/c_yatteau
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Our guest this week, is a returning guest, blast from the past, Chris Whitmore, Lead Product Engineer on the ArcGIS MapViewer. Chris cut his teeth on lots of early tech at Esri, and is now a go-to of mine for Online questions. Chris has a breadth of knowledge he lays out for us here, and we even discuss how the users can be inspiration!
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This week on The Bounding Box, I get to learn some new skills from Adam Tirella, Senior UI Engineer at Esri! Adam sits in a special crossroads of being a UX/UI expert and a Software Engineer, which is a nice place to be! Adam walks us through design systems like Calcite Design System, and what it takes to build out something used by so many developers and designers.
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On The Bounding Box this week, I am honored to have the man, the "voice", Rex Hansen, Principal Product Manager, ArcGIS Runtime and Maps SDKs at Esri. I've known Rex quite a while now, and he drops some exciting info about the ArcGIS Game Engine and all the amazing features available to developers! The Game Engine opens up a whole new level of experiences for users and a variety of ways that developers can build some awesome apps!
- ArcGIS Maps SDK for Unity
- ArcGIS Maps SDK for Unreal Engine
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This week on The Bounding Box, I get to chat it up with Arno Fiva, Developer Evangelist at Esri R&D Zurich. We get to talk about all the cool and practical use cases for 3D applications and web scenes. Arno talks about the current analysis tools available in 3D and how you can incorporate some of your own custom data. There's no Viewshed tool yet, but as Arno can tell, I'm excited about the prospect!
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This week on The Bounding Box, I talk to Kelly Hutchins, Software Engineer on Instant Apps at Esri! Kelly talks about Instant Apps, how they can help you quickly provide out-of-the-box focused apps for your users, and even leverage some of the same features in your own custom apps. We talk about dogs, pets, and how web dev has gotten easier in some ways and just more complicated in others over the past couple decades!
- ArcGIS Instant App Components - use some of the same IA features in your own apps!
- Adopt a pet, check your local shelters and programs!
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This week on The Bounding Box, I talk to Andrew Turner, Director at Esri R&D DC, and CTO of Hub. Andrew and I discuss open data, the evolution of Hub, it's importance to the public, communities, and agencies alike. We also dive into topics like AI and AR and the lack of flying cars in the modern age!
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In this episode of The Bounding Box, we get to hear from Craig Williams, Group Product Engineering Lead at Esri, working on ArcGIS Pro and more core products! Craig gives us some history on mapping products, some of the tech behind it, naming things is hard, and building some amazing software!
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Today on The Bounding Box, we get to talk to Josh Peterson, a Dev Lead in Professional Services at Esri. Josh gets to work on a variety of projects, in different programming languages, technologies, and stacks. Josh lays out the exciting work he gets to do, the challenges, the tears, the teams, and all the satisfaction that comes with working on projects. Josh is a kindred soul, it's the variety that makes it fun.
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In this episode of The Bounding Box, we get to hear from David Hansen, CEO at GEO Jobe! I've known David for a long time, and beyond his team doing some incredible technical work, David and GEO Jobe do as much if more work to help sustain their community. Helping communities thrive at a local level, raising everyone up and being proud the work they do! David walks us through it all, so sit back and enjoy!
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I get to talk to Jeremy Bartley, CTO of Web Map and Geospatial Web App Technologies! Say that 10 times fast! Jeremy talks about the history of the ArcGIS platform, it's growth and how the technology has evolved over the years. Jeremy has some great insight to mapping on the web, and what the future might hold!
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Today I get to talk to Nanae Aubry, Engineer on the ArcGIS API for Python team at Esri! Nanae gets to work on all the nitty gritty features of the Python API. We talk about Python in general when working with ArcGIS, when you might use certain tools and how you can integrate other tools into your Python workflow!
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I have a great talk with David Koerner, software engineer at Esri that works on the 3D team! David works on bringing his computer graphics background to the geospatial space, not just in the rendering engine, but also in providing developer tooling and a great experience for developers to build 3D mapping apps! We talk about the state of 3D mapping and where things can go!
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I am excited to talk to Jason Otero today! Jason works in Talent Acquisition at Esri, and helps to recruit some very talented engineers to build awesome stuff at Esri. We get some insight on the hiring process, what interviews are like, and how you can look at applying for roles at Esri! Jason sees a lot of candidate resumes, and has some great advice for listeners!
Yes, Esri is hiring, come work with me!
https://careers.esri.com
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I re-welcome Russell Roberts to the show! Russ is a Product Engineer for the Online team at Esri. Russ has grubby hands in all kinds of stuff in Online for the MapViewer, specs, features. He breaks things, but makes for up it with charm!
Some blog posts we talked about:
- Searching for Features in Maps and Apps
- Bringing Order to Complexity: Value Grouping & Display Order
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This week, I have the pleasure of talking to Anita Kemp, a Product Engineer on the ArcGIS Developer Experience team. We talk about the nuances of language, working with the ArcGIS platform, teaching users, and the new upcoming Places API for developers! Me no speak good, but Anita knows what she's doing!
Sign up for a free ArcGIS Platform Developer account!
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This week I am joined by Tim Purdum, Engineering Manager at Dymaptic! Tim and I talk about past lives, passion for dev, dotnet, and building projects! Blazor is a great dev tool, and GeoBlazor let's you do some awesome maps with the ArcGIS Maps SDK for JavaScript!
github.com/dymaptic/GeoBlazor
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I am joined by Lisa Stähli this week on the podcast! We talk about the work she has done at Esri on ArcGIS Urban, how much smarter she is than me, digital twins, and the evolution of super villains!
Lisa does some great work with local meetups, building out community, and yoga for the soul...
- Lessons learned from 5 years of developing a software product from scratch (Part 1)
- Lessons learned from 5 years of developing a software product from scratch (Part 2)
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We have John Nelson on the podcast this week! John and I just chat it up, talk about making maps, letting your creativity shine, and having fun while you do some awesome work!
Johns Blog: Adventures in Mapping
Blogs John and I did:
- 5 Tips for Designers who work with Developers
- 5 Tips for Developers who work with Designers
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This week I'm talking to Undral Batsukh, Product Engineer at Esri on the ArcGIS Maps SDK for JavaScript (yes, new name)! Undral and I talk about the stuff she works on, especially all the imagery layer features she handles and all the capabilities in that API.
Undral has some informative videos on youtube, be sure to check them out!
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I'm talking to Jim Barry today! I've known Jim for nearly 20 years, and he is a wealth of knowledge. Jim is currently putting the choo choo into trains with GIS, and we talk about collaboration and community. We even get into interviews and soft skills.
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I get to talk to Paul Crickard, data cruncher, geo puncher, and fitness funkster! We talk about working with data, how spatial permeates almost everything, and how GIS seems to sneak into just about everything!
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I get to talk to Megan Cope, TikTok superstar and GIS ninja! Megan talks about her passion for GIS, data, DIY drone imagery, and building a community!
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Today, I'm joined by Richie Carmichael of the ArcGIS JavaScript team at Esri! Richie builds some pretty awesome features in the API, from OGC, Interactivity, Routing, and more!
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Today, I'm joined by Yann Cabon of the ArcGIS JavaScript team at Esri! Yann keeps the wheels turning and the tiles tiling in the JavaScript API!
https://developers.arcgis.com/javascript
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Welcome Lisa Berry, of the Living Atlas team at Esri! Lisa dives in to how all that awesome raw data turns into Living Atlas layers and maps, how you can use them, and how to explore the data for yourself! Also, vroom vroom!
https://livingatlas.arcgis.com/
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I'm joined by Juan Carlos Franco, lead dev on Calcite Components at Esri! Franco has worked on widgets and web components for quite some time and has great insight on using them in your apps!
https://developers.arcgis.com/calcite-design-system/
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This time around, I'm joined by Bill Dollins, CIO at Fulcrum! Bill has lots of knowledge and a long experience in the GIS industry. We talk tech and musings on all things geo!
Read Bills' geomusings!
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I'm joined by Kate Berg, GIS Lead, meme lead, community beast! Kate and I get to talk about the varied geo community, building portfolios, creativity, inspiration and bringing the fun into GIS! Join #gischat on twitter!
Visit Kate at pokateomaps.com!
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Today, I'm joined by Tom Wayson, Software Engineer on the ArcGIS Hub team! JavaScript, frameworks, building apps, bundling apps, maintaining our sanity in the land of web development!
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Today, I'm joined by Sarah Bell, Product Engineer on ArcGIS Maps for Adobe CC! We get to talk about Cartography, design, collaboration, and maps for the people! You can make a map, I can make a map, we can all make some great maps!
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Today, I talk with John Foster, lead of the Developer Experience team at Esri. They've put a lot of work into making it easier than ever for new and seasoned developers to find what they need! Docs, guides, tutorials, everything a growing dev needs!
https://developers.arcgis.com/
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One of the most frequent questions I get asked is "Which framework should I use?" Specifically, when it comes to building apps with the ArcGIS API for JavaScript. So let's talk about that real quick, some give and takes, and simply my opinion, for whatever that's worth...
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In this episode, we talk to Jim Herries, lead product engineer on the ArcGIS Living Atlas team. We talk about mapping, cartography, power of maps, data, and users of those maps! Some tips on consuming data, telling stories with maps, and how developers can leverage their cartographer friends to help build awesome mapping applications!
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In this episode, we talk to Kristian Ekenes, product engineer on the ArcGIS API for JavaScript team. Kristian lays down some info on Arcade, Data Viz, and awesome maps!
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In this episode, we talk to Silas Toms, about his new book, Python for ArcGIS Pro. We talk geography, Python, spatial development and more!
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In this edition of The Bounding Box, I ran around Esri Developer Summit 2022 ambushing various developers and asking them for their favorite developer tips!
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Join us today with our special guests, a collection of ArcGIS Online members.
- Paul Barker
- Russell Roberts
- Chris Whitmore
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