Homing's Story
Google Maps GDE, Homing Tam shares how he got into development and how he stays involved with the dev community.

Homing Tam is a product manager at Lalamove, an on-demand logistics company. He started at the company as a product manager focusing on location-based systems, talking with developers and business users to enhance the company’s mapping solutions, before moving into product management. Now, Homing handles corporate solutions; takes care of people who want to integrate with his company’s systems; handles the API side of things to help make integration easier; and provides recommendations for developers and other technical teammates.
Homing studied geomatics and computing at university, and his 2009 thesis was based on Google’s API backend. His dissertation focused on using the Google Maps API to perform mapping and overlay. His first full-time job was as a GIS analyst at Esri, the largest private software company in the world. A year and a half later, he became a solutions consultant for a different company, helping customers interested in integrating Google Maps with their software. Read more.
“This year was a year for everyone to become digitally literate. With the extra time we spend on technology, we should make good use of technology to make life better.”
-- Homing Tam
GDE, Google Maps Platform
GDE, Google Maps Platform
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