Tom MacWright
Software engineer building Val Town; earlier at Observable and Mapbox.
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- Tom MacWright is a software engineer who writes at macwright.com.
- He is building Val Town and works on Placemark, a tool for making maps.
- He was the first employee at Observable, from 2017 to 2019, and helped build Mapbox from 2009 to 2017.
- He made geojson.io and Mapbox Studio.
Key facts
- Now
- Building Val Town; working on Placemark (as of November 2026)1
- Observable
- First employee, 2017 to 20191
- Mapbox
- 2009 to 20171
- Made
- geojson.io, Mapbox Studio; lead developer on an OpenStreetMap editor1
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