Seth Docherty

Seth Docherty is a Geospatial Developer at the University of Maryland, specializing in the development of pipelines for large-scale spatial data integration into decentralized Web3 systems such as IPFS and Filecoin. Previously, as a Senior GIS Software Developer/Data Engineer at Foretify, Seth led the development of products based on stakeholder requirements and spearheaded a project to create a geoparsing training framework using spaCy. At Esri, Seth held dual roles as a Senior Product Developer for ArcGIS Solutions and a Solutions Engineer in Manufacturing, focusing on custom GIS software solutions and business product development. Seth's earlier experience includes serving as a GIS Specialist III at the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, where database management and the creation of web applications were key responsibilities, and as a GIS Specialist at Parsons, where automation and data conversion tasks were performed. Seth holds a Bachelor of Science in Earth Science/Meteorology from Kean University.