Arun Ganesh
Cartographer - Boundaries at National Institute of Design
Goa, India
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Top SchoolArun Ganesh is a cartographer and data engineer with 14 years’ experience building and validating large-scale map datasets, currently leading Mapbox’s Boundaries product that aggregates over 3 million global features. He combines hands-on spatial engineering—ETL pipelines, topology generation and vector tile production—with rigorous data quality systems and automated QA for regular product releases. Previously he managed and grew Mapbox’s data teams, creating training programs and open workflows that set a reference standard for paid contributors to OpenStreetMap. A designer at heart (NID, HCI background), Arun also teaches cartography, co-founded rural tech collectives and citizen mapping projects, and has a track record of shipping tooling that bridges community-driven data with production systems. Colocated in Goa, he’s driven by a mission to make the sum of human knowledge widely accessible and is known for tackling the “large stones” in messy geodata workflows.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
PG Diploma Information and Interface Design HCI, PG Diploma Information and Interface Design HCI at National Institute of DesignBE Electronics and Communication Engineering, BE Electronics and Communication Engineering at Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering
Tamil, English, Hindi, Malayalam
Github Skills (200)
tiles10
imagery10
3d10
cpp10
browser10
points10
nodejs10
mongodb10
editors10
mapbox-gl-js10
osrm10
editor10
cartography10
storage10
mapnik10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
publicmap/amche-goa
Nov 2024 - Apr 2025
A public GIS platform for Goa, India
Contributions:22 reviews, 27 PRs, 237 pushes in 4 months
3d-mappingcivic-techconstitutiondecentralizationdemocracy
publicmap/electionmap
Apr 2019 - May 2019
Electoral map tool
Contributions:61 commits, 28 PRs, 45 pushes in 1 month
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