Christopher Cardinal
I’m Christopher Cardinal (CBird GIS), a senior GIS developer with 20+ years of experience building maps, dashboards, and data workflows for utilities, cities, federal agencies, and conservation organizations — including PG&E, USDA, City of Tucson, and Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy.
I focus on practical outcomes: maps that help people make decisions, data pipelines that stay in sync, and web applications that field staff and office teams can rely on. I explain things in plain language and partner closely with both business users and technical teams.
Browse live samples at cbird-gis.com, or reach out if you have a GIS or web-mapping project in mind — I’m based in Oakland and work with clients anywhere.
REVIEWS FROM CLIENTS
• Led development of ArcGIS geoprocessing services (web map printing, geospatial import/export, ArcGIS Pro template services, hydrolog...
• Led development of ArcGIS geoprocessing services (web map printing, geospatial import/export, ArcGIS Pro template services, hydrological workflows) supporting mission-critical USDA production applications; triaged and prioritized support requests with IT and managers.
• Installed, configured, and managed geospatial backends (PostGIS, GeoServer, MapServer) and built geospatial data integration and quality control workflows, including a suite of automated QA tests for ArcGIS services across the development pipeline.
• Built Python-based tools to migrate ArcGIS services from on-premises to AWS ArcGIS infrastructure with automated validation and testing, reducing service migration effort by 70% while improving repeatability and reliability.
• Developed AWS Lambda workflows for geospatial processing and validation (e.g., Cloud-Optimized GeoTIFF conversion with checks) and created an ArcGIS OAuth token endpoint used by multiple frontend applications.
• Created automation for enterprise GIS operations and metrics reporting, including ArcGIS Portal/Server service utilization and hosted feature synchronization across environments (e.g., PROD → CERT); administered FME Flow and built geospatial ETL automating monthly geodatabase distribution for business users.