Summary
Ahmad Aburizaiza is a Senior GIS Regional Lead and Solutions Engineer with nine years of hands-on experience building and automating geospatial systems for enterprise-scale users across public and private sectors. He blends deep GIS technical expertise (ArcGIS, PostGIS, GeoPandas) with cloud and data-engineering skills—designing automated Python/SQL ETL pipelines, dashboards, and governance frameworks that serve thousands of users. His background spans Mapbox, NASA, Verizon, FCC and Bayer, where he improved data accuracy, evaluated multi-million-dollar datasets, and implemented algorithms that materially increased broadband coverage and saved millions. A practiced instructor and content creator, he has taught Python & GIS to hundreds, produced Udemy course material, and authored university-level curricula, demonstrating an unusual mix of research rigor (PhD-level GIScience work) and production delivery. Notably, he repeatedly bridges research and product: from prototyping remote-sensing methods for academic publication to deploying robust enterprise GIS automation at JLL.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 3.01, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 3.01 at University of the Pacific
Non degree PhD course: CSCI E-8 Web GIS, Computer Science, 4.00, Non degree PhD course: CSCI E-8 Web GIS, Computer Science, 4.00 at Harvard University
Master's degree, Geographic Information Science, 3.81, Master's degree, Geographic Information Science, 3.81 at Idaho State University
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Geographic Information Science, 3.65, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Geographic Information Science, 3.65 at George Mason University
Arabic, English