User Spotlights

Hi all! Welcome to our February FME Community User Spotlight. Every month, we spotlight a user in the community whose active participation and helpful contributions have been invaluable. We’re excited to highlight their experiences and insights!User Spotlight: Carlos Silva / ​@arcvancouver What company do you currently work for?Vancouver Airport AuthorityWhat’s your current job role and title?GIS SpecialistTell us more about what you do and how you use FME?I sling data non-stop! Whether it's downloading and reprojecting aerials for my CAD colleagues and consultants, or creating a spatial view of work orders in the terminal, there's lots to do.Why did you join the FME Community?

Happy New Year! Welcome to our January FME Community User Spotlight. Every month, we spotlight a user in the community whose active participation and helpful contributions have been invaluable. We’re excited to highlight their experiences and insights!User Spotlight: David Runneals / ​@runneals What company do you currently work for?Cultivate GeospatialWhat’s your current job role and title?Sr. GIS ArchitectTell us more about what you do and how you use FME?I use FME to get work done faster. From creating rapid prototypes that can be instantaneously deployed in production to automating data pipelines to helping write python that bulk assigns aliases to fields in SDE, there's not much that I haven't done with FME Form

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 ConsultantTell us more about what you do and how you use FME? I've

Welcome to our December FME Community User Spotlight! Every month, we spotlight a user in the community whose active participation and helpful contributions have been invaluable. We’re excited to highlight their experiences and insights!User Spotlight: Paul Morris / ​@paul_m What company do you currently work for?Terracon, a 100 percent employee-owned consulting engineering firm.What’s your current job role and title?Data ScientistTell us more about what you do and how you use FME?I first started using FME almost ten years ago at an underground utility locating company to help create 30-40 ETL processes to extract utility data from clients into our own systems. Now, I work at Terracon, a civil engineering consulting firm. We use FME for a variety of automation and ETL processes involving a seemingly infinite number

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: ​@j.botterill What company do you currently work for? 1Spatial in AustraliaWhat’s your current job role and title? Senior ConsultantTell us more about what you do and how you use FME? As part of our consulting services, we assess client requirements and identify their key challenges in order to deliver tailored integration sol

Welcome to our October 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: Alexandre Bizien @alexbizWhat company do you currently work for? VeremesWhat’s your current job role and title? Solutions Engineer and FME ExpertTell us more about what you do and how you use FME? I’ve been working for almost ten years at a French FME reseller, where I’m involved in both technical and pre-sales activities, especially around FME Flow.

Welcome to our September 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: Marc Graham ​@mgg_beca What company do you currently work for? Beca Ltd., one of Asia Pacific’s largest independent advisory, design and engineering consultancies.What’s your current job role and title? Spatial Application SpecialistTell us more about what you do and how you use FME? I manage our FME Flow and ArcGIS Enterprise deployments, while assisting wit

Welcome to our August 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: Raghavendran Satyanarayanan ​@raghavendrans What company do you currently work for? PIXEL SOFTEK PVT Ltd.What’s your current job role and title? Director GIS PresalesTell us more about what you do and how you use FME? In my current position, as the Director GIS Presales at PIXEL SOFTEK, my role is deeply rooted in showcasing how advanced GIS solutions can addres

Welcome to our July 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: Clifford Rutledge ​@crutledge What company do you currently work for?Toronto and Region Conservation Authority (TRCA) | BeSpatial OntarioWhat's your current job role and title?TRCA: Solutions Analyst, GIS and Data, BeSpatial Ontario: Program ManagerTell us more about what you do and how you use FME?At the TRCA, I help teams across Planning, Engineering, and Environmental services streamline how they access and share data. I use FME daily to build automated workflows that transform and integrate data from multiple sources, making it easier to use in web apps, field tool

Welcome to our June 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: Liam Ferraby ​@liamfez What company do you currently work for? Charter CommunicationsWhat’s your current job role and title? GIS AnalystTell us more about what you do and how you use FME? I work in the telecom industry and deal with large databases and data from various sources, some of which are spatial and plenty of which are not. 

Welcome to our June 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: Matt Smillie ​@virtualcitymatt What company do you currently work for? Virtual City SystemsWhat’s your current job role and title? Project Manager of FME Workflows (aka FME Guy)Tell us more about what you do and how you use FME? I currently work in the 3D city model/digital twin space. The company I work for (Virtual City Systems) has built an out-of-the-box

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 ​

​@david_r and I took an FME trip on the Monorail then went up the Seattle Sky Needle

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? NordendWhat’s your current job role and title? Founder, General Manager

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 ​

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 DittmannWhat company do you currently work for? Deutsche Telekom IT GmbHWhat’s your curren

Does the shape of connection lines in FME Workbench have an effect on the performance of the workspace? You bet!ALL PROOF IS in this video. With square corners, the data is slowed when it reaches the corner. It can become bunched up and affect the performance of each transformer it passes through.Curved lines have a similar effect, although not as severe because their corners aren't as sharp. However, they are longer lines, and so the data takes more time to pass through.Straight lines have the benefit of being the shortest line and having no corners. As you'll see in the video, they are by far the best way to speed up your workspaces.It's not mentioned, but al

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 LeadersWe're excited to recognize the top 10 contributors from our February leaderboard, earning the most points last month:​@danilo_fme  ​@bwn  ​@crutledge  ​@geomancer  ​@nielsgerrits

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’haemerWhat company do you currently work for? NordendWhat’s your current job role and title?

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 MaarelWhat company do you currently work for? Red Geographics What’s your current job role and title? OwnerTell us more about what you do and how you use FME? I'm the owner and founder of Red

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 LimaWhat company do you currently work for? SolutialWhat’s your current job role and title? Commercial ManagerTell us more about what you do and how you use FME? I started my work with the FME Platform ove

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 LigtvoetWhat company do you currently work for? BoskalisWhat’s your current job role and title? GIS SpecialistTell 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

It’s that time of year again for Advent of Code.I like to attempt it each year using FME (no python callers and no inlinequeriers). Sometimes it ends up easier with FME, sometimes it’s harder (and i think sometimes impossible)If anyone would like to join the FME leaderboard the code is here697463-34ac7156Sneak preview of today’s solution. Happy that I only had to add one additional transformer for part 2 

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 KingsburyWhat company do you currently work for? LocusWhat’s your current job role and title? Senior FME and Integration SpecialistTell us more about what you do and how you use FME? 

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 KuijvenhovenWhat 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 ConsultantTell 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 process