Nicolas Belmonte is an Engineering Leader at Facebook in the Location Platform group.

Previously Nicolas was VP, Maps at Mapbox. Nicolas ran product, design and engineering for the Maps organization responsible for Maps SDKs, APIs, Design and Studio. Mapbox has 500M+ monthly active users.

Prior to Mapbox Nicolas was Director of Engineering and Head of Visualization at Uber. Nicolas' group built advanced products to explore self-driving car, geospatial and business data in the context of urban mobility.

Prior to Uber Nicolas was Staff Engineer at Twitter, developing public-facing visualizations published at the NYTimes, Cannes Lions and during Twitter IPO.

Nicolas' experience covers leading organizations at Facebook, Mapbox and Uber, authoring open source work, publishing research work, lecturing at universities on Visualization, speaking at conferences and exhibiting work on data art at different galleries.