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Meet Alex Thissen – Gaia GPS Software Developer

by Ruthie Irvin June 9, 2016
written by Ruthie Irvin

Alex joined Gaia GPS in April 2016 as a software developer. He works on back-end services and GIS, writing Python code and making maps.

After receiving a masters degree in mechatronics in Belgium, Alex and his partner moved to Canada for a life of snowy adventure. While working as a research engineer, Alex became an avid Gaia GPS user, and he used Gaia GPS to explore the backcountry wilderness all around Vancouver, on skis and on foot.

Alex enjoys hiking, trail running, and backcountry skiing, and treasures the deep wilderness around Vancouver. For each adventure, he spends hours of planning, to find the best overnight spots, or to stake out a safe route in a whiteout.

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Welcome Jason Abbott

by Ashli Baldwin March 1, 2016
written by Ashli Baldwin

We’re delighted to welcome Jason Abbott to the Gaia GPS engineering team.

Jason Abbott brings deep experience both with writing software, and Gaia GPS itself. Jason is a long-time user of Gaia GPS for Android, and you can read about his motorcycle adventures on his site, trailimage.com. You can also follow his technical blurbs by following @trailimage on Twitter.

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Jason has a full-stack engineering background, and will help improve all facets of Gaia GPS, from gaiagps.com and the syncing back-end, to the iOS and Android apps. He started with us on President’s Day week, and in his first short week got through all of our technical setup, and shipped improvements to the website, including being able quickly load many thousands of waypoints – an outstanding bug that we were happy to see fixed.
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Jason was raised on a small farm in the Idaho countryside, in the same house his mother grew up in and not far from his father’s childhood home, an area homesteaded by his great-great grandparents. He spent his youth exploring the Palouse Hills and nearby mountains.

He began writing software in high school and not long after, in about 1994, wrote a store catalog web site with Perl. He followed that path to create more and bigger things, such as a major west coast grocery commerce site and insurance fraud detection systems, always eager to understand and adapt to emerging best practices and toolsets. He is excited to work for a company who shares his value of the outdoors and who he expects will need him to make many product testing trips to the mountains.

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Meet the Gaia GPS Team – Jesse Crocker

by Ashli Baldwin January 28, 2016
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A member of the Gaia GPS team for 4 years, Jesse Crocker creates much of the key infrastructure, app features, and all of the custom maps that Gaia GPS users depend on. Jesse both works as Lead Developer, and helps direct the business.

Jesse joined Gaia GPS in 2012 after many adventures, including thru-hiking the Pacific Crest Trail in 2009, skiing the John Muir Trail in 2011, and blowing up avalanches with dynamite and machine guns.

Growing up in the Bay Area, Jesse gained interest in programming in high school, taking computer science classes and working in Linux system administration. After high school, he worked for the Buffalo Field Campaign in West Yellowstone Montana, where he developed software for recording and analyzing sightings of wildlife, for volunteers of field patrols monitoring bison movement in Yellowstone.2014-04-27 at 10-50-51

In the course of tracking buffalo, Jesse took up nordic skiing as a way to explore the backcountry of Yellowstone National Park in the winter, which led to the fulfillment of a childhood dream – becoming a professional ski patroller.

Jesse earned a Wilderness EMT certification, and joined Big Sky Volunteer Ski Patrol for a year. Later, he went on to get an AIARE level 1/2 avalanche certification, became a National Avalanche School graduate, and ultimately worked as a Ski Patroller at Kirkwood Mountain Resort in Lake Tahoe area for 4 years, providing EMT services, and doing avalanche hazard mitigation.

Even in the midst of ski patrol, Jesse remained technical with an interest in software— developing the leading avalanche mapping app, Avalanche Lab, which he sold to Renaissance Recreation after coming to work for Gaia GPS.

As part of the distributed Gaia GPS team, Jesse now lives on a small farm in the Bitterroot Valley in Western Montana, with his wife Kasi and son Elkin. His life still balances between technology, family, and constant backpacking and backcountry skiing.

 

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Gaia Team Profile: Ruthie Irvin

by Ashli Baldwin October 19, 2015
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Ruthie Irvin joined the Gaia GPS Adventure Support team in August of 2014, though she did some contract work for the company in 2011. As senior Adventure Support team member, Ruthie wears many hats around here. On top of familiarizing users with the app, she helps onboard new team members, writes blog posts, and leads the revision process for the support team.

Ruthie lives in College Station, Texas with her husband and Gaia QA Engineer Zachary Irvin. In the year since Ruthie started full-time at Gaia GPS, she and Zach welcomed baby Hazel into the family. On weekends, Ruthie enjoys taking Hazel on day hikes nearby.

 

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