User Spotlights

Welcome to our May FME Community User Spotlight! Every month, we’ll be spotlighting a user in the community whose active participation and helpful contributions have been invaluable to the community. We’re excited to highlight their experiences and insights! This month’s spotlight is an FME Community Celebrity… User Spotlight: Takashi Iijima ​@takashi What company do you currently work for? I am a freelancer, not belonging to any company. What’s your current job role and title? FME Consultant Tell us more about what you do and how you use FME? I've been using FME since 2008. At that time, I was working in Pragmatica Inc., which is my own company. It became a partner of Safe Software in 2015. In January 2019, the company joined with Pacific Spatial Solutions Inc. and the company succeeded the position of Safe partner. In the interim, I had been working consistently to spread FME, supporting FME users for about 10 years. But recently, at the end of March 2025, I left the company on good

Every month, we’re celebrating the energy and expertise that our community members continue to bring to the FME Community with our Community Leaderboard recap. Every question asked, answer shared, and idea submitted adds to the collective strength of our knowledge base - and we love seeing your efforts reflected in our monthly leaderboard! From helping others on the Forums to sharing product suggestions and earning new certifications, here's a look at the standout contributors from April. Let’s dive in and see who made the top of the charts this month! Top Contributors on the FME Community Leaderboard April 2025 Points Leaderboard We're excited to recognize the top 10 contributors from our April leaderboard, earning the most points last month: ​@danilo_fme: 2513 points ​@takashi: 1745 points ​@crutledge: 1356 points ​@nielsgerrits: 1019 points ​@hkingsbury: 961 points ​@virtualcitymatt: 779 points ​@redgeographics: 750 points ​@geomancer: 713 points ​@liamfez: 688 points ​@ebygomm: 680

Welcome to our May FME Community User Spotlight! Every month, we’ll be spotlighting a user in the community whose active participation and helpful contributions have been invaluable to the community. We’re excited to highlight their experiences and insights! In anticipation of the Peak of Data & AI 2025 coming up on May 6-8, we’ll be featuring speakers from the Peak over the next three months in our spotlights. User Spotlight: Jelle De Zwaef ​@jelle What company do you currently work for? Nordend What’s your current job role and title? Founder, General Manager Tell us more about what you do and how you use FME? I work as a data and process consultant with a strong focus on spatial information. FME is my platform of choice to bring structure to complex data, automate repetitive tasks, and design clear, reliable workflows. I often work at the intersection of technical teams and decision-makers. FME helps me translate between those worlds by making data tangible and workflows transparent.

We're trying something new - a monthly community leaderboard recap! This will not only celebrate the users on the leaderboard but also highlight those who are active and contributing to the FME Community. Your engagement is what makes this community thrive, and we want to recognize everyone who plays a part. Top Contributors on the FME Community Leaderboard March 2025 Points Leaderboard We're excited to recognize the top 10 contributors from our March leaderboard, earning the most points last month: ​@crutledge: 1175 points ​@j.botterill: 904 points ​@nielsgerrits: 835 points ​@danilo_fme: 745 points ​@ebygomm: 653 points ​@redgeographics: 651 points ​@fmelizard: 550 points ​@geomancer: 502 points ​@hkingsbury: 447 points ​@david_r: 322 points When you ask questions, engage in conversations, and provide answers, you help strengthen our community knowledge base - and earn points. Learn more here . March 2025 Answers Leaderboard These users provided the most answers to Forum questions in

Welcome to our April FME Community User Spotlight! Every month, we’ll be spotlighting a user in the community whose active participation and helpful contributions have been invaluable to the community. We’re excited to highlight their experiences and insights! In anticipation of the Peak of Data & AI 2025 coming up this May, we’ll be featuring speakers from the Peak over the next three months in our spotlights. User Spotlight: Christoph Dittmann ​@chditt What’s your name? Christoph Dittmann What company do you currently work for? Deutsche Telekom IT GmbH What’s your current job role and title? Data Engineer Tell us more about what you do and how you use FME? I started to work with FME some 10 years ago. At the beginning, the tasks were about simple format transformation and some customized end user data ingestion workflows. Today, additionally to the good old ETL workflows, the tasks also involve job orchestration within our SDI, as well as data integration of various systems via cloud

We're trying something new - a monthly community leaderboard recap! This will not only celebrate the users on the leaderboard but also highlight those who are active and contributing to the FME Community. Your engagement is what makes this community thrive, and we want to recognize everyone who plays a part. Top Contributors on the FME Community Leaderboard February 2025 Points Leaders We're excited to recognize the top 10 contributors from our February leaderboard, earning the most points last month: ​@danilo_fme ​@bwn ​@crutledge ​@geomancer ​@nielsgerrits ​@david_r ​@ebygomm ​@liamfez ​@virtualcitymatt ​@j.botterill When you ask questions, engage in conversations, and provide answers, you help strengthen our community knowledge base - and earn points. Learn more here . February 2025 Answers Leaderboard These users provided the most Answers to Forum questions in February: ​@bwn ​@ebygomm ​@liamfez ​@j.botterill ​@redgeographics ​@worjak ​@crutledge ​@nielsgerrits ​@david_r ​@hkingsbu

Welcome to our March FME Community User Spotlight! Every month, we’ll be spotlighting a user in the community whose active participation and helpful contributions have been invaluable to the community. We’re excited to highlight their experiences and insights! In anticipation of the Peak of Data & AI 2025 coming up this May, we’ll be featuring speakers from the Peak over the next three months in our spotlights. User Spotlight: Margot D’haemer ​@margotdh What’s your name? Margot D’haemer What company do you currently work for? Nordend What’s your current job role and title? BIM/FME Consultant Tell us more about what you do and how you use FME? Since 2022, I’ve worked for Nordend (a Belgian company). I use FME (Form/Flow) on a daily basis to create data workflows for clients in different fields (government, utilities, and AEC). The assignments range from easy ETL tools to complex geometrical transformations. Why did you join the FME Community? The main reason I joined the community was t

Welcome to our February FME Community User Spotlight! Every month, we’ll be spotlighting a user in the community whose active participation and helpful contributions have been invaluable to the community. We’re excited to highlight their experiences and insights! User Spotlight: Hans van der Maarel ​@redgeographics What’s your name? Hans van der Maarel What company do you currently work for? Red Geographics What’s your current job role and title? Owner Tell us more about what you do and how you use FME? I'm the owner and founder of Red Geographics, a Dutch FME partner. My work with FME is primarily aimed at helping our customers (and the larger community) by thinking up exercises for our training courses, use-cases, proof-of-concepts, tech support and basically lots of clever ways of using FME. Why did you join the FME Community? I joined the first, I guess, incarnation of the FME Community, on Yahoo Groups because I thought it was a good way to get better with FME and help out others

Welcome to our January FME Community User Spotlight! Every month, we’ll be spotlighting a user in the community whose active participation and helpful contributions have been invaluable to the community. We’re excited to highlight their experiences and insights! User Spotlight: Danilo de Lima ​@danilo_fme What’s your name? Danilo de Lima What company do you currently work for? Solutial What’s your current job role and title? Commercial Manager Tell us more about what you do and how you use FME? I started my work with the FME Platform over 18 years ago. At first, I only carried out a few conversions from one format to another. Over time, I reached a high level on the platform, participating in complex integrations and Augmented Reality projects. Currently, I am the Commercial Manager at the company, Solutial. Our company is a reseller here in Brazil and South America. Why did you join the FME Community? Initially, I joined the FME Community to ask some questions. Over the years, I log i

Welcome to our December FME Community User Spotlight! Every month, we’ll be spotlighting a user in the community whose active participation and helpful contributions have been invaluable to the community. We’re excited to highlight their experiences and insights! User Spotlight: Birgit Ligtvoet ​@birgit What’s your name? Birgit Ligtvoet What company do you currently work for? Boskalis What’s your current job role and title? GIS Specialist Tell us more about what you do and how you use FME? I work in a team of 12 GIS Specialists of which about 3/4 work on providing data to both our colleagues and clients through GIS viewers. I am a little bit more on the technical side of things and I often focus on automating things and making standard tools for either my direct colleagues or people in the rest of the company. To do this I of course use FME but I also make use of the ArcGIS REST api, the VertiGIS studio suite, the Autodesk construction cloud api and a lot more. Basically, I spend time

Welcome to our November FME Community User Spotlight! Every month, we’ll be spotlighting a user in the community whose active participation and helpful contributions have been invaluable to the community. We’re excited to highlight their experiences and insights! User Spotlight: Hamish Kingsbury @hkingsbury What’s your name? Hamish Kingsbury What company do you currently work for? Locus What’s your current job role and title? Senior FME and Integration Specialist Tell us more about what you do and how you use FME? I initially started using FME as an alternative to Ersi Model Builder, so I began with a lot of GIS and spatial data. As time progressed, I began to move more into the infrastructure and enterprise side of FME. I tend to use FME for a wide range of things, including simple and complex GIS, monitoring and management of other enterprise systems, and (non-spatial) data and system integration. One key thing I like to remember is that spatial data is just data, with a couple of ex

Welcome to our second FME Community User Spotlight! Every month, we’ll be spotlighting a user in the community whose active participation and helpful contributions have been invaluable to the community. We’re excited to highlight their experiences and insights! User Spotlight: Joep Kuijvenhoven @joepk What’s your name? Joep Kuijvenhoven What company do you currently work for? I work for Avineon-Tensing, a GIS consultancy based in Utrecht, the Netherlands. What’s your current job role and title? GIS Consultant Tell us more about what you do and how you use FME? As a GIS consultant, the purpose of my FME usage can vary. I am currently using FME to improve the data quality of two databases that describe the same road network. A large part of this workflow is automated, but another part involves preparing and processing input from an editorial team. Why did you join the FME Community? I grew up using many online forums, and I really enjoy the culture of online communities. This is what ini

Welcome to our first FME Community User Spotlight! Every month, we’ll be spotlighting a user in the community whose active participation and helpful contributions have been invaluable to the community. We’re excited to highlight their experiences and insights! User Spotlight: David Reksten @david_r What company do you currently work for? INSER SA in Lausanne, the French-speaking part of Switzerland. What’s your current job role and title? Data integration consultant and lead GIS developer. Tell us more about what you do and how you use FME? I've been using FME since I started working as a consultant in 2007, at first for geometry validation using FME Form, and then later increasingly as an orchestration and data management platform with FME Flow as a key component. Today, most of my work involves integrating heterogeneous systems and datasets, through cloud services, APIs and good-old database ETL, all of which FME excels at. Our clients are a mix of public and private sector, with ver